{"id":47416,"date":"2022-01-15T11:31:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T11:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47416"},"modified":"2022-01-15T11:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T11:31:20","slug":"new-us-africa-envoy-to-visit-ethiopia-and-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=47416","title":{"rendered":"New US Africa envoy to visit Ethiopia and Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US envoy, assistant secretary to meet leaders and civil society actors during severe crises in the two African nations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The new United States envoy to the Horn of Africa, David Satterfield, and Assistant Secretary Molly Phee will visit Sudan and Ethiopia next week amid continuing crises in the two African nations.<\/p>\n

The American officials will also travel to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Satterfield and Phee will visit Khartoum, where they will meet with Sudanese pro-democracy activists, women\u2019s and youth groups, civil organisations, and military and political figures, a State Department statement said on Friday.<\/p>\n

The pair will meet with the Friends of Sudan, a group calling for the restoration of the country\u2019s transitional government following a military coup<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n

The meeting aims to \u201cmarshal international support\u201d for the United Nations mission to \u201cfacilitate a renewed civilian-led transition to democracy\u201d in Sudan, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

Huge crowds have regularly taken to the streets in Sudan demanding a return to civilian rule since an October 25 coup ended a power-sharing arrangement that began in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir message will be clear: the United States is committed to freedom, peace, and justice for the Sudanese people,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n