Overview
- The Duchess joined a high-level dinner at the British High Commissioner’s residence in Nairobi where senior women leaders examined peace, security and the legal sector’s role in stability, with attendees describing candid, forward-looking discussions.
- She met President William Ruto at State House to discuss the UK–Kenya strategic partnership during the first day of her Kenya program.
- In Wajir, she engaged women peacebuilders and artisans at the Hodhan Business Group, used a UK-funded mobile payment system to buy from a local business and joined a traditional dance.
- Governor Ahmed Abdullahi Jiir briefed her in Wajir on climate pressures, including how water and resource scarcity can fuel political instability in the region.
- Immediately before Kenya, she visited Somalia, meeting President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, touring a Mogadishu hospital providing UK-funded sexual and reproductive health services and hearing accounts from survivors of FGM, rape and sexual assault.