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This Middle East specialist, former ambassador to Ankara, will take up his post. in the next few days “Said the head of the American diplomacy Antony Blinken in a statement Thursday January 7th. He replaces Jeffrey Feltman who is leaving his post once morest the backdrop of an impasse in the Ethiopian conflict and the Sudanese crisis.
Nine months following being appointed envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman is stepping down following suffering heavy setbacks.
First of all on the Ethiopian file. More than a year following the start of conflict between the Addis Ababa government and the rebels in Tigray, the American diplomatic efforts were unsuccessful: the former American envoy did not succeed in wresting peace talks between the two belligerents. And the humanitarian situation in the Tigray region is considered alarming.
Failure also in Sudan where Jeffrey Feltman suffered a snub last October, when the military junta dismissed the civilian prime minister and seized power, just hours following the departure of the American envoy from the Sudanese capital. Even though he thought he had received satisfactory assurances from the army.
Anthony Blinken assures us that the outgoing emissary had always intended to leave following less than a year. And adds that he will remain an advisor to the US State Department.
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