When President William Ruto and the Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz witnnessed the signing of declaration on Climate Development Partnership, in Sharma El-Sheikh, Egypt. [PCS]

A week ago, Germany announced that Flensburg had welcomed five bus drivers from Kenya, who would be undergoing training in a pilot project as part of the migration agreement between Kenya and Germany.

If Kenya’s government sources are to be trusted, potentially 249,995 more Kenyans could soon be joining this inaugural batch of five in Germany.

Like in the United States, where one of the key topics of debate ahead of the November presidential election is immigration, with a special focus on illegal immigration, Germany’s population is majorly unenthusiastic about high rates of migration into the country.

In the Eastern states, especially, the anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise. In Saxony and Thuringia, the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) was second and first respectively in the recently concluded state elections, and a possible success in Brandenburg could rubber-stamp the growing public displeasure over immigration.

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