SUDAN:
Mr. Musyoka’s participation in the process dates back to 1993 following his appointment as Kenya’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation. In the wake of many failed initiatives, the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Desertification (IGADD the forerunner of today’s IGAD) took up the peace process with negotiations officially launched in Nairobi. IGAD established a Standing Committee on Peace in early 1994.

Mr. Musyoka also engaged in talks with neighboring countries to attain sustained attention to the improvement of Sudan's relations with its neighbors, and in particular Uganda and Eritrea. In negotiating for the granting of observer status to some countries and regional blocks that had otherwise felt excluded from the talks. He also addressed the UN General Assembly on the progress of the Peace Process in Sudan vulcanizing the support of the international community for a sustainable peace agreement in Sudan.

The eventual signing of the peace treaty between Colonel Garang and Osman Taha witnessed by the President of South Africa, Thambo Mbeki; US Secretary of State, Collin Powell and the rest of the world was a big success towards a New Sudan, at the end of the year 2004.

SOMALI:
Mr. Musyoka steered the government of Kenya's commitment and unwavering support for the difficult and complex process of the Somali Peace talks. When appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2003, he influenced the government of Kenya's commitment and resolves to re-start the talks.

As the chairman of GAD Inter-Ministerial Facilitation Committee for the Somali Peace talks, he subsequently brought together a group of factional leaders in the Peace talks that had contested article 30 of the Transitional Federal Charter for Somali, which dealt with the selection of the Somali Interim Parliament. He clarified the position, with the result that the leaders of the various Somali groups signed what was described as "a landmark breakthrough" Agreement and resolved a number of contentious issues that had earlier been plaguing the peace talks.

Under his stewardship, the Somali peace process has elicited and maintained international interest.

Assigned to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, on June 30th 2004.