Yes, a US delegation will meet with President Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, and Raila Odinga. - iVerify Kenya

Yes, a US delegation will meet with President Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, and Raila Odinga.

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In a tweet on August 18, 2022, US Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman confirmed that the delegation will meet with outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta, President-elect William Ruto, and ODM party leader Raila Odinga to discuss shared goals of health, security, and economic prosperity.

According to the US Embassy, the delegation led by Delaware Senator Chris Coon is in the country as part of a five-nation tour of Africa.

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United States delegation are set meet Kenya’s leaders.

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The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is true.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We discovered a tweet on the delegations meeting sent out by Ambassador Meg Whitman on August 18, 2022.

Further, we found an image of US Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman welcoming Delaware Senator Chris Coon, who arrived in Nairobi on August 18, 2022, retweeted from Whitman’s tweet on the official US Embassy Nairobi twitter account.

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