THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs will soon be in the market to identify a new ambassador to be assigned to the Republic of Kenya in the next year.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has told Parliament it plans to reopen its embassy in Nairobi within the next 2 years and has set aside money for operationalizing the embassy in the current budget.
Ministry Principal Secretary Sizwe Ntshangase told the Parliament Public Accounts Committee that the ministry has spent E4,750,935.00 to maintain its 5 houses left vacant when government closed the embassy and relocated responsibility for East Africa to its mission in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; seat of the African Union and a host of international political and technical agencies.
Traditionally, the Nairobi High Commission is responsible for West Africa, where hundreds of Eswatini students are located especially in the Anglophone countries of Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.
Eswatini has four embassies on the Africa continent. In addition to Kenya, it has missions in Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa.
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