Eighteen Presidents, eight Prime Ministers and Vice Presidents and seven foreign ministers have confirmed their attendance at the inauguration of Kenyan President-elect William Ruto.
There are diplomats and at least nine special envoys, seven international organisations and one former president.
All presidents from the East African Community are expected to grace the swearing-in ceremony at Kasarani Stadium on Tuesday.
They are Somalia’s Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Samia Suluhu Hassan (Tanzania),Ismail Guelleh (Djibouti), Paul Kagame (Rwanda),Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), Felix Tshisekedi (DRC Congo), Évariste Ndayishimiye (Burundi) and Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan.
Others include Emmerson Mnangagwa (Zimbabwe), Azali Assousmani (Comoros),Dennis Nguesso (Congo Brazzaville), Brahim Ghail (Sahrawi Republic),and Lazarus Chakwera of Malawi.
Abiy Ahmed (Ethiopia), Umaro Embalo (Guinea Bissau) and Waveli Ramkalawan (Seychelles) will also attend. Already Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, President of Mozambique has arrived Kenya for the inauguration. He was received at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by Ambassador George Orina and Amb. Paul Ndungu.
Envoys from African Union, European Union (EU), United Nations, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, Commonwealth, and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development are also expected.
Cuban deputy prime minister Ines Maria Chapman Waugh, Yemi Osinbajo (Nigeria vice president), Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (Equatorial Guinea vice president),Sorena Sattari (Iran vice president), Malik Agar (Sudan’s transitional council), Mahamadu Bawumia ( Ghana vice president), David Mabuza (South Africa vice president), and Maja Gojkovic (Serbia deputy prime minister) will attend.
The speaker of Algeria Ibrahim Boughali, Togo’s Yawa Tsegan, former German president Christian Wuf, UK’s minister for Commonwealth Vicky Ford and India’s minister for external affairs Vellamvelli Muraleedharan will also be present.
Japan will be represented by a special envoy of Prime Minister Makihara Hideki, South Korea will have Choung Byoung Gug who is the chairman of the central committee of the People Power Party and China will have Liu Yuxi, a special representative of the Chinese Government on African Affairs.
US President Joe Biden, announced Saturday that a presidential delegation will attend William Ruto’s swearing-in.