STORY: Kenyan president concludes visit to Zimbabwe
SHOOTING TIME: April 27, 2024
DATELINE: April 29, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:13
LOCATION: BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of Kenyan President William Ruto attending the 64th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo
2. SOUNDBITE (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenyan President
3. various of Kenyan President William Ruto's visit to Zimbabwe

STORYLINE:

Kenyan President William Ruto on Saturday concluded his two-day state visit to Zimbabwe after attending the 64th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Zimbabwe's second-largest city, Bulawayo.

ZITF, the country's leading international exhibition, is a major annual trade and investment platform that offers opportunities for local and international businesses to explore partnerships.

This year's expo ran from April 23 to 27.

Ruto said that innovation is the secret recipe for transformation, adding that innovation will introduce African economies to the possibilities of the digital economy, increase intra-Africa trade, and accelerate regional integration.

SOUNDBITE (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenyan President
"Innovation is the secret recipe for transformation. It produces new inventions, transforms existing technologies, and enables every sector to produce more, faster, better, and surer out of every input and every unit of input. Innovation will enable every sector of our economies to harness the power of automation and robotics, as well as digitization, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, which are revolutionizing productivity and redefining the future of work every minute in every space, at all times."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
(XHTV)