Exposed! Tanzania Voted For Djibouti Instead Of Her Neighbor Kenya For The UN Security Council Seat

Exposed! Tanzania Voted For Djibouti Instead Of Her Neighbor Kenya For The UN Security Council Seat

Kenya narrowly won an election for a non-permanent United Nations Security Council seat Thursday, in a vote impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. India, Ireland, Mexico and Norway all won their bids in first-round voting on Wednesday, but neither Kenya nor Djibouti attained the two-thirds majority needed in the U.N. General Assembly to take a seat designated for Africa on the powerful 15-nation council. In a second round on Thursday, Kenya achieved the slimmest of victories, obtaining 129 votes, one more than needed to win the seat.  Djibouti fell well short with 62. It has now emerged that Kenya’s neighbor- Tanzania voted for Djibouti for the hotly contested seat.

The East African Community is as good as dead. Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia you can understand but Tanzania voting for Djibouti against Kenya for the UN Security Council seat is a contempt card from @MagufuliJP. Or was this retaliation against KE closing the border over Covid-19? pic.twitter.com/td1HVtoXok

— David Makali (@davidmakali1) June 20, 2020

This shocking revelation comes barely a month President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli resolved to work together “as brothers”, effectively ending a brewing diplomatic row between the East African neighbors. Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam had traded retaliatory border closures to tame the growing cross-border coronavirus cases.The two presidents had a phone conversation, which according to Magufuli, eased the tension over border control in the wake of the pandemic. It would seem not.