US Secretary of State John Kerry made a surprise trip to Somalia on Tuesday, officials said, becoming the highest-level US official ever to visit the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation.
The top US diplomat was spending just a few hours in the capital, Mogadishu, and was not scheduled to leave the confines of the fortified airport where he was to meet Somalia`s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmake.