Rex Tillerson will visit five countries regarded as US security partners in what will be the first high-profile visit to the continent by a member of the Trump administration

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s safari follows the scatological  remarks President Donald Trump used to dismiss African countries last January.

Tillerson will visit Chad, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria.

Going for him is his government selling warplanes to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram and US drones being launched against Al Shabaab terrorists in Somalia.

But Tillerson will have to explain why his department has failed to fill several key posts in Africa and why American trade with the continent is slumping.

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