Spurned by Sahel, France courts Kenya, a place it didn't colonize

As the Kenyan people grapple with skyrocketing fuel costs precipitated by the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, their leaders are preoccupied with road and infrastructure upgrades as they prepare to host the Africa-France Summit next week. This high-level gathering marks the first time that the summit will be held in a non-Francophone, English-speaking African nation since its inception in 1973. The summit comes on the heels of a controversial new France-Kenya defense cooperation agreement, and of the ar...