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Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu visited Kenyan deputy president William Ruto during her recent trip to Nairobi, claims the caption of a photo posted on Facebook on 5 May 2021. Pale Karen , ofisi ya DP Ruto : HE 5th President of Kenya , Dr William Ruto meets with Tanzania's president , Suluhu, it reads in a mix of Kiswahili and English. This roughly translates as: At Karen, the office of deputy president Ruto: his excellency the fifth president of Kenya, Dr William Ruto meets with Tanzania’s president, Suluhu. The photo shows Suluhu holding a sculpture next to a smiling Ruto. He remains deputy president, but is likely to run for the presidency in Kenya’s 2022 elections. Suluhu arrived in Kenya on 4 May for a two-day state visit, during which she addressed a joint sitting of parliament. Suluhu and her host, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, held bilateral talks in a bid to strengthen relations between the two countries. But does the photo show Suluhu visiting Ruto’s office in Karen , a suburb of Kenya’s capital of Nairobi , in 2021? We checked. Africa Now Conference 2019 A Google reverse image search reveals that the photo first surfaced online on 13 March 2019 when Ruto shared it on his official Twitter account . Ruto posted a series of photos and captioned them: During a meeting with Tanzania Vice president Samia Suluhu in Kampala, Uganda. #AfricaNow19. During a meeting with Tanzania Vice President Samia Suluhu in Kampala, Uganda. #AfricaNow19 pic.twitter.com/FIw14rz1mk — William Samoei Ruto, PhD (@WilliamsRuto) March 13, 2019 The photos were taken during the 2019 Africa Now Conference in Uganda , which was attended by leaders from across the continent.
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