NAIROBI, KENYA—Secretary of State John Kerry will be in Africa on Monday for talks in Kenya and Nigeria on countering terrorism before visiting Saudi Arabia to discuss the conflict in Yemen. On his last visit to the region in May 2015, Kerry became the first secretary of state to set foot in Somalia two decades after dead U.S. soldiers were dragged through the streets of its capital, Mogadishu. It was a symbolic visit to show support for the Horn of Africa nation’s fledgling government. The country has been trying to rebuild after establishing its first functioning central government since 1991. Kerry on Tuesday and Wednesday then visits the cities of Sokoto and Abuja in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation of about 160 million people and one of its largest economies.

Source: thestar August 20, 2016 11:37 UTC