President Uhuru Kenyatta with his US counterpart Donald Trump.[Photo/PSCU]
The US State Department announced on Wednesday that it is scrapping its travel warnings for a number of countries.
In the new system, Kenya is placed in the second tier.
When visiting countries in that grouping, US citizens are urged to “exercise increased caution.”
According to State Department official Michelle Bernier-Toth, some various documents from the US were not readily understood.”
“We also needed to make sure that the information was more easily understood, putting it into plain language making it clearer why we were ranking countries, why we were citing them as a threat or a risk.”
Ms Bernier-Toth, the acting deputy assistant secretary for Overseas Citizens Services, noted that the method of assessing travel risks has not changed.
Advisories are based on information from intelligence agencies, US embassies and host countries’ governments, she said.
The content of the Kenya section in the new system is similar to evaluations issued by the Obama administration.