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The embassy opened in central Nairobi on 2 March 1964, when the United States established diplomatic relations with Kenya. In 1998, the original embassy was the target of a terrorist attack , after which a new embassy building was constructed in Gigiri, a suburb of Nairobi, in 2003.
After Kenya's independence on December 12, 1963, the United States immediately recognized the new nation and moved to establish diplomatic relations.The embassy in Nairobi was established December 12, 1963—Kenya's independence day—with Laurence C. Vass as chargé d’affaires ad interim pending the appointment of an ambassador.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Kenya. There are currently 96 embassies/high commissions in Nairobi and three consulates in Mombasa. [1] Honorary consulates are not listed below. Diplomatic missions in Kenya
Embassy Bissau operations were suspended in 1998. Services are provided by Embassy Dakar. Kenya Nairobi (E) All of Kenya, Puntland, and Somalia, and ACS and visa services for Eritrea and South Sudan (except A and G visas) Lesotho Maseru (E) All of Lesotho Liberia Monrovia (E) All of Liberia Madagascar Antananarivo (E)
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).
The US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya served as a base for the US diplomatic mission to Somalia. [19] [32] The US worked with various parties throughout Somalia to establish peace and a centralized government. On 17 January 2013, the US formally recognized the Federal Government of Somalia, which was established in August 2012. [19]
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in two nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African capital cities, one at the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the other at the United States embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. [1]
The Kenyan ambassador in Washington, D. C. is the official representative of the Government in Nairobi to the Government of the United States. List of representatives [ edit ]