Western donors led by the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative James Swan United States ambassador Donald Yamamoto British ambassador Ben Fender and European Union ambassador Nicolas Berlanga Martinez watched from the sidelines supporting Farmajo while trying to gently persuade him to make the political process more inclusive...
When he was the acting Africa supremo in Washington in early 2018 Donald Yamamoto the current US ambassador to Somalia – a long-time proponent of bringing Eritrea back 'into the fold' – explored the possibilities of an Ethiopian-Eritrean rapprochement when Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned including the possible use of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to help underwrite the costs...
Vol 60 No 18 |
- KENYA
- SOMALIA
Some Somali and Kenyan pundits see him as a pawn of the United States ambassador in Mogadishu Donald Yamamoto (AC Vol 60 No 12 Washington stirs the UN pot)...
Swan a veteran US State Department career officer who served as ambassador in Djibouti Somalia and Congo-Kinshasa during Barack Obama's presidency has been pushed forward by Donald Yamamoto the current US ambassador in Mogadishu and a mentor of Swan's diplomats and UN insiders told Africa Confidential...
This is unlikely to be a major concern of the new US ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto however who is expected in Mogadishu at any moment...
Acting US Secretary of State for African Affairs Donald Yamamoto we hear has threatened personal sanctions by the US against anyone inclined to cause political instability in Kenya by declaring an alternative government...
Vol 58 No 24 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
The US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Donald Yamamoto ruled out the scenario at a sitting of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on 9 November...
Carson retired last March and the official replacing him on an interim basis Donald Yamamoto has been too busy with events in Chad Mali and now South Sudan to say much about Kenya so an improvement in relations had been expected...
Donald Yamamoto the US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa will apparently be heading for Asmara later this month...
An experienced Africa hand Johnnie Carson former Ambassador to Kenya is his Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and his principal deputy will be Donald Yamamoto former Ambassador to Ethiopia; Phil Carter current number two will replace Yamamoto in Addis Ababa...