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US keen for Uhuru to attend Africa summit – envoy

Godec however said, “At the end of the day, the ICC is a process which is ongoing and the United States is again committed to expand its partnership with Kenya.”

“It is important to have a continuing engagement with the government and the people of Kenya. We hope to have a very successful conference in August and we hope that President Kenyatta will accept the invitation.”

The indictment has been one of the reasons why Obama is yet to visit the homeland of his late father as president.

But Obama has spoken to Kenyatta on the telephone, and the Kenyan leader has enjoyed more interaction with the outside world since a massacre at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi in September claimed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab insurgents.

The summit, together with Obama’s trip to Africa last year, and a promised future visit before he leaves office, might go some way to assuaging disappointment that he did not pay the continent more attention in his first term.

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