**The US has threatened to impose travel bans on 15 senior Kenyan officials if they fail to support the country’s “reform agenda”.**Michael Ranneberger, the US ambassador in Nairobi, says letters have been sent to the officials urging them to back reforms and oppose the use of violence.
In recent months the US has criticised Kenya for failing to investigate deadly violence after the 2007 election.
Some 1,300 people died, but officials have resisted calls for a tribunal.
Mr Ranneberger said the letters sent to the officials made it clear that “the future relationship of those persons with the United States is tied to their support for implementation of the reform agenda and opposition to the use of violence”.
He told reporters he would not be releasing their names, but said they included ministers, MPs, permanent secretaries and other prominent officials.
He added that the US would “more closely scrutinise any proposals for Kenya in international financial institutions”.