East Africa: Top U.S. Officials Heading to Kenya; Refugee Numbers Rise

Washington — The wife of the U.S. vice president, Jill Biden, will travel to Kenya in the near future to assess the humanitarian disaster unfolding in the Horn of Africa.

She'll accompany Rajiv Shah, who, as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, is at the forefront of U.S. emergency assistance efforts. The United States has committed almost $460 million to the aid effort, and is the largest worldwide food donor.

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