Feltman gradually eclipses Booth
Washington's new Horn of Africa envoy has taken over many of the files previously handled by its envoy for the Sudans.
The German academic Annette Weber, who takes on her new role on 1 July, will have her work cut out for her as she surveys a region marked by the conflict in Tigray, a complex election in Somalia and Sudan's fraught transition.
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