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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.
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.
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
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He previously served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, where he also served as Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim. Kneedler had also served as Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy in Nairobi, and held the same role at the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines.
The U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince is opening up a large number of non-immigrant visa appointments for Haitian nationals, warning that anyone who paid a U.S. visa fee prior to Oct. 1, 2022, will ...
He served as the United States Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at U.S. Embassy in Juba, South Sudan. He is a former ambassador to Djibouti and Mauritania . He has served as Director of the Office of the Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, and as Deputy Executive Director in the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs , and was the ...
On 7 August 1998, al Qaeda terrorists detonated a car bomb outside the United States embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, leaving 200 dead and thousands wounded. [16] The immediate aftermath strained relations between the United States and Kenya, as Kenyans felt that the United States only cared about the Americans who lost their lives, not the Kenyans. [17]