The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Madam Mamadi Gobeh Kamara and delegation on 10th September, 2021 paid a courtesy call on the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kenya, Amb. Raychelle A. Omamo at the Ministry office accompanied by Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Isatu Aminata Bundu and Deputy Director-General for Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation, Mr. Sulay Manah Kpukumu.

Madam Gobeh Kamara expressed thanks and appreciation to Cabinet Secretary Omamo for the exceptional hospitality given to her delegation since their arrival in Kenya and conveyed fraternal greetings from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Professor David Francis. Madam Gobeh Kamara also recalled the remarkable role played by the Kenyan forces during the civil war in Sierra Leone which ended in 2002.

She referred to the close historical ties between the two nations from their membership in the Commonwealth to the shared responsibility as African Union (AU) Committee of Ten (C-10) Member States for the Reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). She further highlighted the bond and mutual respect between their presidents which was climaxed by the warm hospitality extended by His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta to His Excellency President Maada Bio during the latter’s private visit to Kenya in 2019.

Other areas of collaboration by the two sister countries which Madam Gobeh Kamara alluded to include the recent successful Global Partnership for Education Summit in the United Kingdom, membership of the C-10 on the Reform of the UNSC and conveyed gratitude to the Republic of Kenya for the donation of twenty thousand tablets and power banks to facilitate the conduction of the Mid- Term Population and Housing Census in Sierra Leone “Let me reaffirm Sierra Leone’s commitment to deepening the bilateral relations between the two countries which the two have happily enjoyed over the years at various levels and it is our fervent hope that Kenya and Sierra Leone continue to progress and consolidate these ties’’. DEPUTY FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER PAYS COURTESY CALL ON HON. RAYCHELLE OMAMO, CABINET SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA