Kenyan mission in London embarrassed by series of erroneous posts on UK protests

The Kenyan High Commission in London found itself in the middle of a major diplomatic embarrassment on Tuesday after it fired off a series of X posts about the ongoing violence in the UK, only to delete them shortly after.

Initially, the mission posted and then deleted three statements due to incorrect references to Northern Ireland, mistakenly calling it "Northern Island" and "Northern Ireand."

The posts were then deleted, and a correct statement was issued before being deleted again and replaced with a fourth statement that omitted references to Northern Ireland and featured a new design.

"Kenyan High Commission in London, United Kingdom is closely monitoring the series of protests happening in the United Kingdom, primarily driven by far-right and anti-immigrant groups," read the fourth statement issued by the Kenyan mission.

Interestingly, the mission housed at Kenya House in London has two deputy heads of mission: career diplomat Edwin Afande and London-based preacher Joseph Warui.

This is the first time Nairobi has deployed two deputy high commissioners to one embassy, and the Foreign Office has not issued any clarification on the reasons behind these postings.

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