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African leaders' failure to speak in one voice concerning

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President William Ruto with other African Heads of State during the closure of the Africa Climate Summit Ceremony at KICC. [Silas Otieno Standard]

For a very long time, Africa's political leadership has failed to read from the same script at the expense of the continent's unity. And it is worrying.

For instance, when the fresh spate of war broke out between Palestine and Israel last year, some African presidents, notably Kenya's William Ruto, took to social media to express their solidarity with Israel in complete disregard of the historical facts, including the more than seven decades of illegal occupation of Palestine by Israel that has caused untold human suffering.

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