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Wiper Patriotic Front (WPF) leader Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka has announced plans for a seven-day working visit to the United States of America.
Wiper Patriotic Front (WPF) leader Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka has announced plans for a seven-day working visit to the United States of America.
In a statement on Thursday, November 12, the Kalonzo Musyoka Presidential Advisory Council said the visit, scheduled to run from Wednesday, November 18, to Tuesday, November 24, 2026, will take the former Vice President to several American cities, including Washington, D.C., Boston, Germantown, Baltimore, Minneapolis and Cleveland.
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"The visit combines a formal engagement with the United States Congress on Capitol Hill with town halls, institutional engagements and diaspora mobilisation across Washington, D.C.; Boston, Massachusetts; Germantown and Baltimore, Maryland; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Cleveland, Ohio," the statement read.
According to the programme, Kalonzo and his delegation will depart Nairobi for Washington, D.C., on Monday, November 16, ahead of the scheduled engagements.
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On Wednesday, November 18, he will participate in a congressional engagement at the Capitol Hill complex before attending an evening dinner with the leadership of Washington.
On Thursday, November 19, the Wiper leader will travel to Boston, Massachusetts, for an engagement at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The programme will also include a reception bringing together alumni, faculty members and representatives of the technology and investment community.
On Friday, November 20, Kalonzo will return to Washington, D.C., before proceeding to Germantown, Maryland, where he is scheduled to attend a town hall meeting with the DMV diaspora, followed by a US East Coast dinner.
The following day, Saturday, November 21, will feature a Sabbath service at Living Springs Seventh Day Adventist Church in Baltimore, Maryland, before a joint dinner and event in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with Ambassador Mohamed Abdi Afey for the Somali Hero Awards and Somali Book Fair.
On Sunday, November 22, Kalonzo will attend a Thanksgiving dinner with members of the Cleveland diaspora in Ohio.
His programme in Cleveland will continue on Monday, November 23, with institutional engagements involving several organisations in the city.
Later in the afternoon, he is scheduled to serve as the Chief Guest at the Building Bridges: Cleveland - Kenya - Africa Reception, bringing together participants from the Kenyan and wider African communities.
The delegation is expected to conclude the visit on Tuesday, November 24, when it will depart the United States for Nairobi, Kenya.
This comes days after Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna announced a five-stop tour of the United States targeting Kenyans living in the diaspora under the Linda Mwananchi campaign.
According to an update shared on Sunday, November 1, the tour will take Sifuna and the Linda Mwananchi initiative to several American cities, including Allentown, the Washington DC metropolitan area (DMV), Dallas, Houston and Seattle/California.
According to the schedule released on the Linda Mwananchi website, the first engagement will take place in Allentown, Pennsylvania, from November 20 to November 22.
Sifuna will then proceed to the DMV area for engagements scheduled between November 23 and November 26 before heading to Dallas, where he is expected from November 27 to November 28.
The tour will continue in Houston from November 29 to November 30 before concluding with engagements in Seattle and California between December 1 and December 4.
