Daniel Erik Schaer 🇪🇪

Estonian 🇪🇪 Ambassador to Kenya 🇰🇪 and South Africa 🇿🇦 based in Nairobi

[Daniel Erik Schaer 🇪🇪 @schaerdaniel]

Zambia 🇿🇲 and Estonia 🇪🇪 are strengthening cooperation especially in innovation and digitalisation.
I paid a courtesy visit to my Zambian colleague Alfred Musemuna. We found that we have much in common.
Last week, Estonian startup conference @Latitude59 hosted an event in Lusaka!

[Daniel Erik Schaer 🇪🇪 @schaerdaniel]

@EUAmbSchmidt Karibu 😉 I give a clue!

[Belen Calvo Uyarra @BelenCalvoEU]

Delighted to welcome Team Estonia to Gaborone! 🇪🇪

Together, we are connecting innovation ecosystems to support Botswana’s digital future. #SmartBots

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#TeamEurope #GlobalGateway #DigitalTransformation #BWInnovation

[Kristian Schmidt @EUAmbSchmidt]

For EU-South Africa trade relations, it’s Business As Usual: Balanced, Reciprocal, Growing, Reliable. You’re welcome. 🇪🇺🫱🏻‍🫲🏾🇿🇦 @the_dtic @DIRCO_ZA @EUinSA @CCordeiro_EU @SADC_News

[Musalia W Mudavadi @MusaliaMudavadi]

Trust is not built through words alone. It is earned through integrity, accountability and actions that deliver real results.

Representing H.E. President @WilliamsRuto at the Global Trust Summit 2026 Dinner, I engaged leaders from different sectors and regions on the importance of rebuilding confidence in our institutions, partnerships and societies.

Our discussions reinforced a simple truth: strong relationships and credible institutions are essential to attracting investment, creating opportunities for young people and addressing shared global challenges.

For Kenya, strengthening trust means building partnerships that deliver, institutions that serve and an economy where citizens and businesses can thrive.

[Daniel Erik Schaer 🇪🇪 @schaerdaniel]

Thank you PS for the open, friendly and frank discussion. The EU 🇪🇺 - Kenya 🇰🇪 relationship continues to expand and Estonia 🇪🇪 joining Team Europe in Kenya is a clear sign of this.

[Korir Sing'Oei @SingoeiAKorir]

Kenya’s relationship with the European Union is multidimensional and mutually beneficial. Its character is evolving from development to trade, investment, defence and security. Engaged with the diplomatic representatives of 21 European Union countries and exchanged views on a range of issues touching on our shared priorities. Grateful to the Ambassador of Ireland to Kenya H.E Caitríona Ingoldsby for hosting us. @IrlEmbKenya @EUAmbKenya @ForeignOfficeKE

[Daniel Erik Schaer 🇪🇪 @schaerdaniel]

You have Estonia’s full support! 🇪🇪🇳🇴🇨🇦🇺🇦

[Canada in Kenya, Somalia and Uganda @CanHCKenya]

In the @StandardKenya opinion pages, read a joint op-ed by HC @JoshuaTabah, @NorwayInKenya's Amb. Siv Cathrine Moe and @UKRinKEN’s Amb. @YuriiTokar - “Why returning Ukrainian children, detained civilians and prisoners of war is a pathway to peace”
🇨🇦🇳🇴🇺🇦 🔗https://t.co/9WY8BmP0Rb

[France in South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi @FrenchEmbassyZA]

Just happy to be on the delegation

[ESTDEV 🇪🇪 #StandWithUkraine @ESTDEVestonia]

Warmest congratulations to the people of Botswana on their Independence Day! 🇧🇼

Development cooperation is at the centre of Estonia-Botswana relations.

Through regional #TeamEurope initiatives and other projects, Estonia is supporting Botswana’s digital transformation, strengthening its innovation ecosystem, and promoting knowledge exchange to advance sustainable development. 🌍

In 2025, President Duma Gideon Boko made history as the first African head of state to pay a state visit to Estonia. 🇪🇪🤝🇧🇼

#FromThePeopleOfEstonia @MFAestonia @schaerdaniel

[ESTDEV 🇪🇪 #StandWithUkraine @ESTDEVestonia]

Over 270,000 newborns have been registered through Kenya’s digital birth register, developed in partnership with Estonia 🇰🇪🤝🇪🇪

For the first time, parents in Kenya can register their child's birth online, eliminating lengthy paperwork and reducing waiting times from months to just days.

Developed through collaboration between the Estonian private sector, #ESTDEV and Kenyan partners, the digital system securely transfers newborn data directly from hospitals to civil registration services, making the process faster, more accurate and more accessible for families across the country. 🌍

Read more 👇

#FromThePeopleOfEstonia @schaerdaniel

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

A former Wagner fighter, now in Ukrainian captivity, said Russian mercenaries in Mali used captured Africans as live subjects for brutal "tactical medicine training."

In 2023-2024, Russian instructors deliberately maimed African prisoners, after which the mercenaries practiced stopping bleeding.

Explosives were strapped to one prisoner’s leg and detonated. Russians then practiced applying a tourniquet and bandaging the wound.

Another prisoner was shot in an artery near the armpit, while another was used for knife training - Russians practiced stabbing a person in the heart.

Another prisoner had his leg chopped off with an axe.

According to the Russian mercenary, all of the prisoners died during these "training exercises."

He was in Mali from September 2023 to April 2024. After returning to Russia, he signed a contract with the Russian defense ministry in 2025 and later joined the GRU’s 14th separate special forces brigade. He was captured while fighting against Ukraine.

📹: Dmytro Karpenko

[EU Ambassador to Kenya @EUAmbKenya]

EU family in Nairobi growing.

Estonia is our 20th Member State to open an Embassy in Nairobi 🇪🇪🇪🇺🫱🏻‍🫲🏾🇰🇪

Tunasema Karibu sana Kenya, Balozi na timu yako !

[Daniel Erik Schaer 🇪🇪 @schaerdaniel]

@EUAmbKenya Asante sana Balozi! 🇪🇪🇪🇺🇰🇪

[ESTDEV 🇪🇪 #StandWithUkraine @ESTDEVestonia]

️ What if textile waste became a resource for innovation? ♻️

Kenya is Africa’s largest importer of second-hand clothing, and with that comes a growing textile waste challenge.

At @KenyattaUni, students are helping change that narrative. 🇰🇪🤝🇪🇪

With funding from #ESTDEV, the Estonian Academy of Arts, SEI Tallinn and 🇰🇪 partners created the Nairobi Circular Design Hub that has now become a permanent space where students and young designers are transforming used clothing and textile waste into new products, business ideas and opportunities.

👉Read the full story: https://t.co/4yuh3jrpJa

#FromThePeopleOfEstonia

[Daniel Erik Schaer 🇪🇪 @schaerdaniel]

Team Europe 🇪🇺 in Kenya 🇰🇪 continues to grow. Estonia 🇪🇪 is opening its embassy in Kenya this year. This family had been a lot of help. Thank you to @HGeigerEU our dear EU Ambassador and I look forward to working with my friend @AmbPeschke the new EU Ambassador!

[ESTDEV 🇪🇪 #StandWithUkraine @ESTDEVestonia]

Estonian programming school //kood officially launched its first on-site study programme in Kenya 🎉🇰🇪

Out of more than 800 applicants, 54 learners successfully completed the intensive selection sprint and are now part of the Batch 1 who have begun their 12-month journey at kood/Nairobi!

Built on an education model born in Estonia 🇪🇪, funded by #ESTDEV, and launched together with Kenyatta University, kood/Nairobi is redefining how people can learn coding and access digital skills training across Kenya.

Congratulations to the first kood/Nairobi cohort! 👏

#FromThePeopleOfEstonia

[Daniel Erik Schaer 🇪🇪 @schaerdaniel]

@SingoeiAKorir Congratulations! This is a recognition of Kenya’s dedication to sports 👏

[Andreas Peschke @AmbPeschke]

Dunia nzima itakuja Afrika, Nairobi!

Congrats 🇰🇪 on hosting World Athletics Championship 2029.

First in Africa. Historic

[Estonian MFA 🇪🇪 | 🌻 #StandWithUkraine @MFAestonia]

Estonia supports greater geographical accuracy on world maps, but it should never come at the expense of territorial integrity.

Estonia therefore abstained on the UN resolution, in solidarity with Ukraine.

Maps must show Ukraine within its internationally recognised borders, including Crimea.

Crimea is Ukraine. 🇺🇦

[Margus Tsahkna @Tsahkna]

A pleasure to welcome President-elect Ülle Madise to @MFAestonia today.

We discussed Estonia’s foreign policy priorities and our shared responsibility to strengthen Estonia’s security, interests and voice internationally.

Looking forward to working closely together.