Kenyans working with US embassies and offices, and bureaus worldwide could be staring at job losses after the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled an overhaul of the US State Department on Tuesday.
As part of the Trump administration's "America First" mandate, the department is set to reduce its staff by 15 per cent as it closes and consolidates more than 100 offices and bureaus worldwide.
According to an internal memo, the plan-of which Congress has been informed-would eliminate 132 of the State Department's 734 bureaus and offices.
A further 137 offices will be transitioned to another location within the department to "increase efficiency," the Reuters and the Associated Press reported, citing a fact sheet it had obtained.
