Following the attacks at US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on August 7, 1998, the US State Department has authorized all non-emergency embassy personnel to leave those countries. Because of this, only emergency services are available at these embassies, and even those are very limited.

Since these attacks the US State Department has issued travel warnings for Egypt, Malaysia and Yemen. Services at the embassy in Yemen has been severely disrupted, with only emergency services currently being offered. Some passport services are available, but nonimmigrant visas are being processed only for diplomatic travel. Processing for immigrant visas is continuing as scheduled. In Malaysia, nonimmigrant visas are still being issued, but the applicant must go through a travel agent. Immigrant visa interviews are being rescheduled. Both immigrant and nonimmigrant visa processing is continuing as normal in Egypt.

On Tuesday morning the US embassy in Swaziland was evacuated after a bomb threat was made, but a search of the building revealed nothing. The US embassy in Kampala, Uganda has been closed for a few days as well. According to Assistant Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy, "we are not shutting the embassies down in a permanent sense. We are not leaving. We are taking, in effect, a brief time-out in order to make the security adjustments that are necessary to be responsive to a threat."

Most recently, all but emergency consular services were eliminated at the US consulates in Pakistan. And all consular services have been eliminated at US consulates in Somalia, Sudan, Republic of Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea-Bissau. No word yet on when operations will resume