Traveling with the State Department in Africa, you feel like you're traveling in countries without people. Traffic-clogged roads are cleared in advance by security services. The two-hour drive from downtown Nairobi to the airport takes a beautiful 12 minutes.
I board the back of Secretary of State John Kerry's plane with about a dozen other reporters in his traveling press pool. America has very good relations with Djibouti; the tiny country hosts the only American military base in Africa.