Kenya seeks to host World Economic Forum next year

By: OLIVE BURROWS 1 min read
Kenya seeks to host World Economic Forum next year
President Uhuru Kenyatta with Prof Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of World Economic Forum. Present are CS for Energy and Petroleum Charles Keter, CS Foreign Affairs and International Trade Amina Mohamed, CS Industralization and Enterprise Development Adan Mohamed when they held talks in Beijing/PSCU
President Uhuru Kenyatta with Prof Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of World Economic Forum. Present are CS for Energy and Petroleum Charles Keter, CS Foreign Affairs and International Trade Amina Mohamed, CS Industralization and Enterprise Development Adan Mohamed when they held talks in Beijing/PSCU

BEIJING, China, May 14 – Kenya is one step closer to possibly hosting the next World Economic Forum for Africa following a meeting between President Uhuru Kenyatta and founder Klaus Shwab.

At the meeting, it was agreed that the international organisation for public-private partnership would send a team to inspect Kenya’s facilities.

Ethiopia has also made a bid to host the annual continental event with South Africa having hosted the last one at the start of May.

The two leaders met on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation being held in Beijing, China.

Kenya has actively sought to host international fora in the interest of raising her profile and in a bid to establish itself as a conference tourism hub.

OLIVE BURROWS

OLIVE BURROWS

With a decade of storytelling under her belt, Olive Burrows has been with Capital FM for the last four years and perhaps most notably interviewed US President Barack Obama. Committed to asking the hard questions and telling the story in the most engaging way possible, she has also interviewed Melinda Gates, a UK Minister and severally had the opportunity to sit across from President Uhuru Kenyatta and address the pressing issues of the day. Other notables she has had occasion to seek answers from are UN Secretary General António Guterres and John Kerry in his time as US Secretary of State.