U.S.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cancelled scheduled events on Saturday
on the second day of a visit to Kenya because he had been feeling
unwell, a State Department spokesman said, adding that he would resume
his programme on Sunday.
"The
secretary is not feeling well after a long couple days working on major
issues back home such as North Korea and has cancelled his events for
the day," spokesman Steve Goldstein told reporters travelling with
Tillerson.
"Some
events will go ahead without him, while they are looking at the
possibility of rescheduling others," said Goldstein, under-secretary of
state for public diplomacy and public affairs at the State Department.
Goldstein
later said the secretary's health had improved. "The Secretary is
feeling better and will resume his normal schedule tomorrow," he said.
Tillerson,
65, is four days into his first diplomatic trip to Africa, where he has
visited Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya, and is scheduled to go on to
Nigeria and Chad.
During
the trip he has also been involved behind the scenes in discussions
within the administration on a possible meeting between U.S. President
Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
A U.S.
embassy official in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, said U.S. Ambassador
to Kenya Bob Godec and Kenyan Health Minister Sicily Kariuki would
attend events on Saturday morning.
Tillerson
had been scheduled to lay a wreath at the site of the 1998 bombing of
the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, in which more than 200 people were killed,
and attend an event to highlight U.S. health assistance in Africa.
Reuters
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