Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kenya today for the first leg of his three-country Africa tour. He spoke with his counterparts about the ongoing conflict in Tigray, which has killed thousands of people, as well as the military takeover in Sudan. The World’s Halima Gikandi reports from Nairobi.
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