Satterfield makes first trip to Egypt as US Horn of Africa envoy

Shoukry talks GERD, Sudan with US Horn of Africa envoy: The Biden administration’s new envoy to the Horn of Africa, David Satterfield, discussed the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the political crisis in Sudan with Foreign Ministry Sameh Shoukry in Cairo yesterday, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Satterfield, who replaced Jeffrey Feltman as Washington’s regional envoy earlier this month, is currently touring the region “to promote democratic civilian rule in Sudan and to support peace and prosperity in the Horn of Africa,” the US State Department said Tuesday. He has already visited Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Ethiopia, and Kenya, and will travel next to the UAE, Turkey, and Israel.