ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — President Donald Trump hasn't spoken much about Africa, and what he's said has been far from flattering. It falls to his top diplomat, on his first official visit to the continent, to show the United States still cares.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived at sunset Wednesday in Ethiopia's capital, the initial stop on a five-country tour that will also take him to Djibouti and Kenya in the east before heading further west to Chad and Nigeria.
He was greeted at the airport Addis Ababa on a red carpet by the Ethiopian foreign minister before taking a motorcade to his hotel.
Complicating Tillerson's mission is the vulgarity that Trump used about Africa during a White House meeting in January with U.S. lawmakers. Trump had questioned why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and "shithole countries" in Africa as he rejected an immigration deal, according to one participant and to people briefed on the Oval Office conversation, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly describe the discussion
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