MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The highest ranking U.S. official to visit Somalia’s capital in nearly two decades landed in Mogadishu on Sunday in another sign of improving security in the Horn of Africa’s most chaotic nation.

Johnnie Carson, the assistant secretary of state for African affairs, arrived at the seaside airport Sunday morning, where he met with the Somalia’s president and prime minister.

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