Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will arrive in Kenya on Friday for a one-week visit.
Ms Sirleaf is expected to land at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the morning.
Her first stop will be at the grave of Kenya’s founding father President Jomo Kenyatta to lay a wreath.
She will then proceed to State House where she will inspect a guard of honour and hold bilateral talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta who arrived on Thursday from a one-day visit to Rwanda.
President Kenyatta was in Rwanda for the 12th session of the North Corridor Integration Projects.
During her visit to the country, Ms Sirleaf will join Kenyans in celebrating Jamhuri Day celebrations on Saturday.
Thereafter, she will attend the World Trade Organisation conference next week at Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC).
On Monday, the visiting Head of State is expected to attend the first edition of the International Forum on Women in Business.
The event, being held in conjunction with the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference, aims to place focus on the role of women in trade and global economy.
On Tuesday, she will attend the official opening of the WTO meeting, including several other official engagements before flying back to Liberia.
This will be Ms Sirleaf’s first State visit to Kenya since she was elected as the first female president in Africa and Liberia in 2006.
She was however in Kenya in the 1980s in exile fearing political persecution after then President William Tolbert was killed in a coup.
Ms Sirleaf won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for “for non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.”
SOURCE:DAILY NATION:Liberian president to jet in Kenya Friday morning for one-week visit
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