pADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ? Visiting sub-Saharan Africa for the first time since taking office, Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Saturday remained focused largely on the Middle East, particularly Egypt, whose cratering economy and political problems are dimming hopes it can play a major role in fostering any new peace plan between Israel and the Palestinians./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/kerry-criticizes-nigeria-on-human-rights/2013/05/25/6bc928ca-c510-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_story.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2c635c46/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fkerry-criticizes-nigeria-on-human-rights%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F6bc928ca-c510-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Kerry%2C+in+Africa%2C+keeps+focus+on+Middle+East" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fkerry-criticizes-nigeria-on-human-rights%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F6bc928ca-c510-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Kerry%2C+in+Africa%2C+keeps+focus+on+Middle+East" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fkerry-criticizes-nigeria-on-human-rights%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F6bc928ca-c510-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Kerry%2C+in+Africa%2C+keeps+focus+on+Middle+East" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fkerry-criticizes-nigeria-on-human-rights%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F6bc928ca-c510-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Kerry%2C+in+Africa%2C+keeps+focus+on+Middle+East" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fkerry-criticizes-nigeria-on-human-rights%2F2013%2F05%2F25%2F6bc928ca-c510-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Kerry%2C+in+Africa%2C+keeps+focus+on+Middle+East" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665249377/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2c635c46/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165665249377/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2c635c46/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165665249377/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2c635c46/a2t.img" border="0"/