Mickie Ojijo

Mr. Rudolf Marquardt, a computer malware expert in Germany, travelled to Kenya for the first time in 2001 on the invitation of a Kenyan lady he met earlier that year in Germany.

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s visit to Germany in April as Kenya’s head state was more of a display of freedom from the shackles of the International Criminal Court (ICC) than a state visit to pursue genuine interests of bilateral concern.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its missions, recently dispatched a circular requesting Kenyans to send suggestions to the diaspora desk and simultaneously register online as voters.

Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the countries most affected by the outbreak of Ebola virus are geographically far from Kenya, but to the countries we depend on for tourists, Ebola is in Africa and so is Kenya.

There are three main reasons for this: First, and to be specific the population of Kenyans in Europe is static after stringent Shengen Visa entry requirements of 26 EU countries, and three non- EU countries were harmonised in the mid-2000s.