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Africa has been eclipsed by more serious challenges in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and even Latin America, despite its relevance in the US-China competition. More immediately, Blinken is looking to boost thus-far unsuccessful U.S. diplomatic efforts to resolve deepening conflicts in Ethiopia and Sudan and counter growing insurgencies elsewhere. His three-nation tour — to Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal — follows months of administration attempts to ease both situations that have yet to bear fruit despite frequent lower-level interventions. That’s been a hard sell despite massive US contributions of money and vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic and other infectious...
