There is only one African country invited to the G7 Leader's Summit in France: Kenya 🇰🇪

HE’S DONE IT!!! 🤩 LEWIS HAMILTON WINS THE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA GRAND PRIX!!! 🏆🎉 #F1 #BarcelonaGP

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), is an intergovernmental organization based in Geneva that operates the largest proton accelerator laboratory in the world. Its research scientists not only contributed to the establishment of the world wide web as we know it but continue to engage in cutting edge research and use cases crucial in space, health, software engineering and many other fields. I was delighted to meet Mr. Martin Gastal, @CERN Adviser for the MENA region, in Geneva. We discussed advancing Kenya’s Science & Technology sector by pursuing a formal International Cooperation Agreement (ICA) with CERN. As Africa’s Silicon Savannah, Kenya is ready to partner on high-performance computing, student mobility, and cutting-edge research. Looking forward to welcoming the CERN team to Nairobi soon to formalize this strategic partnership. @Profshaukat @Profmutisya @SpaceAgencyKE @ForeignOfficeKE

I've been trying to tell people for years. - Kenya was the "safe" place in Africa for the rich children of the world to come and work and play.. back during colonial days. - Once colonialism was over.. that didn't change, if anything it increased. More so with the continued portrayal of Kenya via Hollywood movies and series. - When people think of "traveling to Africa" they first think of Kenya, not Tanzania or South Africa. Again.. thanks to Hollywood. - Kenya has always been aligned with the centers of Money in the world, i.e. New York and London. - Kenya is still the "real Africa" unlike South Africa, with more of the practical problems the rest of the continent faces.. while also having enough of the amenities that South Africa offers. - It's always been stable, with a stable business environment, with strong judicial oversight of business structures. All of these things make it the go to spot in Africa for any Ivy League grad with a bright idea. It's also a badge of honor on any Western CV to have done time in Kenya. South Africa and other places.. less so.

Brazil harvested its largest soybean crop ever this year. At the very same time, the number of its farmers filing for legal protection from their debts has climbed more than fivefold since 2022. More food than ever, and the thinnest profit in nearly twenty years to go with it. That gap is creating something rare: good farms, good land, and good processing plants going up for sale cheap, because their owners ran out of time. This exact setup has a name, and one investor built a fortune on it. People called him the Grave Dancer. His real name was Sam Zell, and he made billions buying good things that were dying, back when their owners were scared, broke, and forced to sell. He would buy the wreck, fix it, and wait for the recovery everyone else had given up on. His rule never changed, and his motto put it plainly: "I suffer from knowing the numbers." The danger is that not every cheap farm or plant is a real deal. When something is cheap only because its owner ran out of time, that is the prize worth chasing. A thing that is cheap because the whole market is broken will only bury you. I used Zell's lens to map where Brazil's real opportunities are right now, and which crops are quietly a trap. Read it here: x.com/drewcrawford_/status/2…

For sure, the future of Kenya is bright and secure under these young and talented generation! Hongera Team Kenya.

🇰🇪 Big win for Kenya at the Huawei ICT Competition Global Finals! Our all-female team Computing category Esther Wairimu, Joan Nkatha, Melane Minayo, Faith Mosonik secured the prestigious Women in Technology Award, 1 of only 4 teams globally to receive it. STEM Women💪🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

🇰🇪 🔊🔊REGISTER 👇👇👇Kenyan Companies in the Livestock Sector and beyond, save the dates 29th June to 2nd July, 2026 for the Brazil Cattle Trade Mission to East Africa 2026 in Nairobi and Nakuru Counties | forms.gle/REoeGresJFPhbK4C9

Together with Mr. Jong Hyuck Ahn, Deputy CEO of the Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM), we officially signed the Host Country Arrangement establishing a KEXIM Representative Office in Kenya. The new office, which will serve as a liaison office for KEXIM Headquarters in the Republic of Korea, marks an important step in deepening Kenya–Korea economic and development cooperation, particularly in infrastructure financing, investment facilitation and project development across the region. Through its presence in Nairobi, KEXIM will strengthen partnerships with governments, institutions and businesses while supporting strategic development projects through financial and technical assistance. During our discussions, I highlighted Kenya’s position as a regional economic, diplomatic and technology hub, and encouraged KEXIM to leverage its Nairobi office to attract more Korean investors and expand private sector confidence in the Kenyan market. The establishment of the office is expected to unlock greater trade and investment opportunities, support skills and knowledge transfer, create jobs and further position Kenya as a gateway for international cooperation and sustainable development in the region.

O governo da China anunciou o reconhecimento de todo o território brasileiro como área livre da febre aftosa. O anúncio ocorre após mais de 20 anos de negociações. Atualize-se: trk.ebc.com.br/AtgVo.

Henry T. Wooster: career diplomat, polyglot trouble-shooter and now Donald Trump’s pick for Kenya 🇺🇸🤝🇰🇪 Henry T. Wooster, a Minister-Counselor in America’s Senior Foreign Service, has spent more than three decades being sent to the world’s trickiest corners. Nominated on June 2nd by President Trump as the next American ambassador to Kenya, he arrives with a résumé that reads like a map of American foreign-policy headaches: Iran desks, Baghdad’s provincial politics, Pakistan’s nuclear-armed politics, Russia-watching in Moscow, Central Asia strategy at the National Security Council, and a stint advising the Joint Special Operations Command. He has already run embassies as chargé in Amman and, since June 2025, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Before that he was America’s ambassador to Jordan (2020-23), serving under both Mr Trump’s first term and Joe Biden’s, an unusual feat of bipartisanship in an age of polarisation. Educated at Amherst College and Yale, Mr Wooster began his working life as an Army Reserve officer before joining the State Department. He has held nearly every rung on the diplomatic ladder: Iran desk officer, director of the Office of Iranian Affairs, political counsellor in Islamabad, deputy chief of mission in Paris, and deputy assistant secretary for the Maghreb and Egypt. Fluent in French and Russian with working Arabic, Farsi and even Syriac, he is the sort of old-school professional who can read the room in half a dozen languages and several time zones. His appointment is more than a routine promotion. In the first Trump administration, a fair number of embassies went to political donors or campaign loyalists. Kenya, however, is getting a genuine expert. Nairobi is no diplomatic backwater: it is East Africa’s economic engine, a counter-terrorism partner, a hub for American business and a linchpin in Washington’s efforts to counter Chinese and Russian influence on the continent. By choosing a career Foreign Service officer rather than a fundraiser or Fox News commentator, Mr Trump is signalling that he takes the place seriously. In an administration often accused of transactional diplomacy, this is the sort of appointment that suggests pragmatism may sometimes trump patronage. Whether the Senate agrees, and whether Mr Wooster can navigate Kenya’s domestic politics with the same deftness he has shown in Amman or Port-au-Prince.. remains to be seen. But on paper, at least, America is sending one of its best to a country that matters.

Everybody knows what the Manhattan Project is. Almost nobody knows what the Cerrado Correction is. The Manhattan Project cost approximately $30 billion in today's dollars and produced the atomic bomb. The Cerrado Correction cost around the same and produced enough food to feed approximately one billion people. One has been written into every twentieth-century history textbook in the world. The other has been written into approximately zero outside Brazilian agricultural science journals. In 1955, the entire central plateau of Brazil produced agricultural output on about 200,000 hectares of arable land. By 2005, that same region produced agricultural output on more than 40 million hectares. That is a 200-fold expansion of cultivated farmland on a single biome across fifty years. The World Food Prize Foundation calls it "the world's single largest increase in farmland since the settlement of the U.S. Midwest." It happened on soil that an entire generation of soil scientists had declared agriculturally worthless. Soil so acidic and aluminum-toxic that most crops died within weeks of germination. Brazil engineered around that. Limestone, phosphorus management, biological nitrogen fixation, tropical-climate genetics, four decades of farmer training, and a research institution called Embrapa that almost nobody outside Brazil has heard of. The same playbook is now being applied to MATOPIBA. 73 million hectares. The next breadbasket is being built right now. Most capital allocators still have not noticed. I wrote the full breakdown here: x.com/drewcrawford_/status/2…

Happy and blessed Madaraka to all Kenyans! Hongera!

On the eve of Madaraka Day, I joined fellow Kenyans at Kenya House, Beijing, for a luncheon graciously hosted by His Excellency Ambassador Willy Bett and Mrs. Faith Bett. Ambassador Bett’s remarks on the diaspora’s contribution to Kenya’s development were both profound and timely. His call for patriotism and collective responsibility resonates deeply as we reflect on our heritage and the journey ahead. Wishing all Kenyans at home and abroad a Happy Madaraka Day. Kenya Hoiyeee 🇰🇪 @LynettemwendeL @KenyaEmbinChina

Why China’s🇨🇳 latest coffee move could reshape African agricultural exports China🇨🇳 will allow qualified coffee bean imports from 53 African countries beginning July 20, 2026. The policy introduces a single continent-wide framework, replacing country-by-country approval processes. African coffee exporters could benefit from easier access to China's🇨🇳 fast-growing consumer market. The move is expected to deepen China🇨🇳–Africa trade ties and expand opportunities for one of Africa's most valuable agricultural exports.

🇰🇪🇧🇷Mr. Rui Mucaje, President of the Afro-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (AfroChamber) led a delegation of Officials to pay a courtesy call to His Excellency Ambassador Dr. Andrew Karanja, Head of Mission. The objective of the visit was to enhance the commercial and institutional cooperation between Kenya and Brazil in promoting trade and investment partnerships, forge direct business linkages, and explore new frontiers for collaboration in key sectors of interest including Trade Finance, Buisness Intelligence, Digital Communication, and other areas such as renewable energy, infrastructure, ICT, tourism, sports, and culture through people-to-people exchanges. The meeting also highlighted ongoing efforts to deepen economic diplomacy between the two countries, including the recent business mission to Kenya that took place in February 2026, where the AfroChamber President took part, participation in trade and investment meetings including hosting the CEO of the Kenya Export Promotion and Branding Agency (KEPROBA) during the official visit to Brazil in May 2026 and more recent engagements during the Brazil-Africa Seminar 2026 that took place on 25th April 2026 in commemoration of Africa Day Celebrations. Discussion focused on using communication for Public Diplomacy, enhancing trade finance for cross-border trade, and increasing digital business links between Kenya and Brazil via AfroChamber’s Next Platform. It was vital to use media like GMG Group publications and business tools to promote Kenya’s investment and export chances in Brazil.

Kenya to establish almost 16 intervention centres to boost Ebola preparedness – Prime Cabinet Secretary Mudavadi

Worldwide Caution - Updated Public Health Arrival Restrictions and Enhanced Ebola Disease Screening – May 28, 2026: U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals who have been present in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda, or South Sudan within 21 days of arrival in the United States must only enter through designated airports for enhanced screening. Review the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) information on what travelers need to know about returning to the United States from DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan for the list of designated airports. The CDC and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will apply enhanced public health screening at the designated airports in response to the Ebola disease outbreak. This requirement applies to all U.S. citizen and U.S. national passengers who were present in those countries. Please be prepared for flight changes or cancellations. Read more: travel.state.gov/en/internat…