U.S. and Chinese Special Envoy Visits Raise Great Power Questions in Horn of Africa

Xue Bing, China’s Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa, is winding down his visit to the region with a two-day stop in Uganda, after visiting Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya. His last stop before returning will be South Sudan. His tour coincided with a visit to Sudan by his colleague Zhai Jun, the Special Envoy for the Middle East.

Xue’s appointment as Special Envoy raises questions about how he’ll interact with his U.S. counterpart, David Satterfield, Washington’s Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa. Satterfield also visited the region this week, touching down in Addis Ababa on Monday to meet with officials from the Ethiopian government and the AU.

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