Kenyan troops agreed to return troops to South Sudan for peacekeeping mission after UN Chief persuasion.

President Uhuru Kenyatta and UN Secretary General António Guterres held talks on Sunday in Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the African Union Summit.

The two leader sat down to a breakfast and agreed Kenya would take up peacekeeping command in Darur.

According to State House Spokesman Manoah Esipisu, the UN offering Kenya Darfur command is a measure of the confidence of the Kenyan able troops. President Kenyatta welcomed the call saying the concerned officials would start immediate discussions.

Kenya had withdrawn troops after UN- then Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon unfairly sacked Lieutenant General Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki from his command of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS),  last year.

Lieutenant General Ondieki was accused of doing little during the violence that erupted in July 2016 in which acts of sexual violence were reported. The Special Investigation alleged that UNMISS did not respond effectively to the violence due to an overall lack of leadership, preparedness and integration among the various components of the mission.

Kenyan government felt it was unfair for sacking of the general and also protested the how UN made the communication of his sacking and calling for his replacement.

Instead Kenya withdrew all its troops –1,500 soldiers from the mission.

Kenyan troops are respected forces and have taken part in peacekeeping missions from across the world. Kenyan troops are also taking part in the war against the Islamist Al-Shabaab in Somalia under African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).