Egypt, UAE play essential role in containing Sudan-Ethiopia crises
US fears state collapse, regional spillover in Horn of Africa.
Another worry: Sudan-Ethiopia border flare-up
US Horn of Africa Envoy Jeffrey Feltman is in Ethiopia again this week out of concern for a significant deterioration in the security situation there, while encouraging US citizens in the country to consider making plans to leave.
Feltman will also try to prevent the Ethiopia crisis from escalating into a regional conflagration involving Sudan, Egypt and perhaps other countries.
As we explain here, Sudan has been a good news turnaround story over the past two years, propelled by pro-democracy demonstrations that ousted dictator and war criminal Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. Sudan’s fragile economy depended on US and international assistance, which have been frozen since Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of Sudan’s armed forces, ousted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and other civilian officials from the transitional Sovereignty Council on Oct. 25.
