![]() ![]() Agency for International Development administrator Samantha Power, several trips to Addis Ababa and Nairobi by Biden’s special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeff Feltman, and a current visit to Sudan by the top diplomat for Africa, have produced little progress. Yet months of engagement by the administration, including an August visit to Ethiopia by U.S. Kenya also has deep interests in Somalia, which it borders and which has been wracked by violence and instability for decades. ![]() diplomat for Africa.īlinken begins his tour in Kenya, a key player in both neighboring Ethiopia and Sudan and currently a member of the U.N. “Our intensive diplomacy there is ongoing, and through the trip, we would like to demonstrate that our commitment to African partnerships and African solutions to African challenges is enduring and will continue while we continue our intensive efforts with our African partners and likemindeds to address the difficult challenges in Ethiopia and certainly Sudan,” said Ervin Massinga, a top U.S. His three-nation tour - to Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal - follows months of administration attempts to ease both situations that have yet to bear fruit despite frequent lower-level interventions. diplomatic efforts to resolve deepening conflicts in Ethiopia and in Sudan and counter growing insurgencies elsewhere. More immediately, Blinken is looking to boost thus-far unsuccessful U.S. All the while, China is pumping billions into African energy, infrastructure and other projects that Washington sees as rip-offs designed to take advantage of developing nations. contributions of money and vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic and other infectious diseases. That’s been a hard sell despite massive U.S. Thus, Blinken’s trip is aimed in part at raising Washington’s profile as a player in regional and international initiatives to restore peace and promote democracy as it competes with China. Despite its importance in the U.S.-China rivalry, Africa has often been overshadowed amid more pressing issues in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and even Latin America. ![]()
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