Sunday July 6, 2014 - President Uhuru Kenyatta and his wife, Margaret Kenyatta, have been invited for a “special dinner” with US President Barrack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama in August this year.
This was announced by the US State Department and US Ambassador to Kenya, Robert Godec, who said the two youthful couples will meet at White House in August on the sidelines of the US-Africa Summit
“We have been informed that President Uhuru Kenyatta will have an exclusive dinner with Obama on the sidelines of the summit. At dinner, President Kenyatta will invite Obama to visit Kenya. Only then will we have a clear idea of when Obama will visit his father’s land,” a US State Department official said
Obama has also invited 46 other African leaders to the summit in August.
All of the invited leaders are on generally good terms with the United States and have not been suspended from the African Union.
Uhuru’s trip had been in doubt because relations between Kenya and the US have been somehow awkward over his indictment by the International Criminal Court ( ICC) and America’s travel advisories against certain coastal areas.