WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday praised Kenya's William Ruto for “his bold leadership” as the White House marked the first state visit
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday praised Kenya’s William Ruto for “his bold leadership” as the White House marked the first state visit to the United States by an African leader in more than 15 years, one that comes as the Nairobi government is sending police to Haiti to help quell gang violence in the Caribbean nation.
Earlier, Ruto and his wife, Rachel Ruto, had arrived for a pomp-filled ceremony that officials said was aimed at recognizing the growing importance of the U.S.-Kenya relationship. The leaders planned a joint news conference after their meeting and readied for a formal state dinner on the White House grounds.
“Today we have an occasion to build synergies, to build partnerships that will not only solve our current problems, but also to build a future that is a much more promising, a much more prosperous, a fairer, a freer, a healthier and a much more prosperous future,” Ruto said. An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia and Laos — found the debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of tax revenue needed to keep schools open, provide electricity and pay for food and fuel.
The major non-NATO ally designation, while largely symbolic, reflects how Kenya has grown from a regional partner that has long cooperated with U.S. counterterrorism operations on the continent to a major global influence — even extending its reach into the Western Hemisphere. Kenya will be the first sub-Saharan African country to receive the status.
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