President William Ruto was as assertive as he has ever been on Wednesday, when he echoed the decades-long African call for meaningful representation on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the UN’s topmost decision-making organ.
In a passionate address to the UN General Assembly in New York, he blasted the organisation’s structure, which denies the continent a permanent seat at the UNSC, as “grossly unjust,” a message repeated by his African peers in equally forceful speeches.