US interior secretary to visit Kenya over poaching

Kenya Wildlife Service Corporate Communications Manager Paul Udoto (left) and USAID Senior Communications Advisor Philip Micheal Clark at the United States Embassy on Tuesday, 19th January, 2015. PHOTO: ANGELA MAINA/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: The US Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell will visit Kenya as part of her three-nation tour of Africa to address wildlife trafficking and assess the conservation efforts in the country.

She left Washington for Gabon Wednesday. She will also visit South Africa in what she said was America's way of showing commitment to deal with the transnational crime that has hugely affected African countries.