Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has arrived Paris for a meeting with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
Thursday’s meeting is the third by the two leaders in three years.
Kenyatta was also a guest at an international forum on gender equality hosted by Macron on Wednesday.
Reports revealed that the meeting addressed Violence. “I have made a personal commitment to end Female Genital Mutilation during my tenure and to end all forms of Gender-Based Violence by 2030 as envisioned in the Sustainable Development Goals,” he said.
Paris is working to ensure increase in its presence in eastern Africa as its dominance over West and Central Africa comes under competition from Russia, China, Turkey, and Gulf powers.
On a trip to France last October, Kenyatta mobed for French investment in his country, east Africa’s largest economy.
Last year, Kenya awarded a $1.5 billion contract to a French consortium to build a 233-kilometer highway linking the capital Nairobi and Mau summit. The project has not yet kicked off.
Worries over the country’s increasing debt have dented President Kenyatta’s infrastructure ambitions.