Kenya and the United States have good relations. The United States and the United Nations extensively used Kenya's facilities to support humanitarian operations in Somalia. Numerous relief organizations base their operations out of Kenya to service needy East Africans. In 1992 Kenya held its first multi-party election since opposition politics was abolished in 1969. Since 1991 Kenya has absorbed a large influx of Somali refugees and has suffered internal danger from tribal clashes in the Rift Valley area.
Main crops are coffee, tea, corn, wheat, fruit, vegetables, sugarcane, and wheat.