NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 28 — South Sudan President Salva Kiir suffered an embarrassing moment after he appeared clueless on how to go about wearing a translation ear-set in Russia.
Kiir who arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for a highly-publicized visit, the first a by a South Sudan leader, had difficulties putting on the translation device prompting an intervention by his host, President Vladmir Putin.
"Like this"-South Sudanese President Kiir could not control the earphone during negotiations with Putin
The Russian leader told his colleague how to put on the earphone correctly. pic.twitter.com/NOSpsDliHW
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The South Sudanese leader fumbled with the device as Putin singled him to put wear an earpiece.
Earlier on, Kiir had laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin in Moscow.
He was received in Russia by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrey Rudenko and a group of African ambassadors and diplomats in Russia.
