US issues Kenya travel warning ahead Obama visit
United States has issued a travel warning for Kenya ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama, who is due to address a summit on global entrepreneurship’. Reports TVC NEWS.
The summit, to be held in the capital, Nairobi, from 24-26 July, the report said could provide “a target for terrorists”, according to the US State Department in a
statement.
It would be recalled that in 2013 at least 67 people died in an attack by al-Shabab militants on the Westgate shop centre in Nairobi.
The Somali-based militant group says it is at war with Kenya.
Their deadliest assault to date happened at a university in the north-easter Kenyan town of Garissa in April, when four gunmen killed 148 people.