U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday named career diplomat David Satterfield as the new special envoy to the troubled Horn of Africa. He is replacing Jeffrey Feltman, another veteran diplomat, who had held the Horn of Africa posting, covering the countries of Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia, since last April. The top U.S. diplomat said Feltman, 63, would continue to work at the State Department in an advisory capacity on African affairs. "But we are also deeply concerned with violence and tensions elsewhere in Ethiopia," Feltman said. Last month, the State Department also expressed concern about Somalia's delayed elections and what it called "the procedural irregularities that have undermined the credibility" of those polls.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 07, 2022 14:05 UTC