President Kenyatta, Obama speak on Dadaab closure, AMISOM

President Kenyatta also offered his condolences to the US President over the attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida in which a gunman claimed 49 lives two weeks ago/FILE

According to a read out of the phone conversation on the White House website, President Kenyatta has assured President Obama that Kenya will continue to respect the dignity of refugees and will comply with its international obligations where they are concerned.

Last week, following a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in Brussels, Kenya stuck to its guns on the closure of Dadaab but given President Kenyatta’s commitment to Obama that Kenya will comply with its international obligations to refugees, it is unclear if that position will change.

President Kenyatta also offered his condolences to the US President over the attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida in which a gunman claimed 49 lives two weeks ago.

It is also likely that President Kenyatta pushed for the adoption of the African Union Mission in Somalia by the United Nations given the US is a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

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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.

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