JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The U.S. Embassy and other American offices in South Africa have been ordered closed for at least two days this week because of unspecified security concerns, U.S. and South African officials said.Neither U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Sharon Hudson-Dean nor Nonkululeko Mbatha, spokeswoman for the South African national police commissioner, would say whether a threat had prompted the closure that began Tuesday.
US Embassy in South Africa closes for security
September 21, 2009