Biden is honoring Kenya with state visit as the East African nation prepares to send police to Haiti

📆 5/22/2024 7:05 AM
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President Joe Biden is welcoming Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House to kick off a three-day state visit. Ruto comes to Washington as his country is preparing to deploy 1,000 police officers to Haiti to take part in a U.N.-led effort to try to calm a spiraling security crisis in the Caribbean nation.

Kenya President William Ruto pauses after laying a wreath at the tombs of Martin Luther King Jr., and Corett Scott King, during a visit to the King Center Monday, May 20, 2024, in Atlanta. Kenya President William Ruto and first lady Rachel Ruto, right, pause at the Eternal Flame with Bernice King, center, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., during a visit to the King Center Monday, May 20, 2024, in Atlanta. The gravesite of King and his wife Coretta Scott King are in the background.

Ruto started his U.S. visit in Atlanta, where he visited The King Center, met NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal, and stopped by the Tyler Perry Studios. Biden gathered dozens of African leaders in Washington in December 2022 to make the case that the United States under his watch was “all in” on Africa’s future and laid out billions in promised government funding and private investment on the continent in health, infrastructure, business and technology. The Democrat also promised to visit sub-Saharan Africa in 2023.

Cameron Hudson, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Africa Program, noted that that Biden has hosted just one African leader,“This visit today feels a bit like a fig leaf, not just for the Kenyans but for Africa in general, and a kind of a placeholder for the administration to say: All of those things that we said early on in the administration, they all remain true,” Hudson said.

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