Horn of Africa carries over tensions from Gulf region - The Arab Weekly
The diplomatic potential for addressing the tensions and competing interests was limited, however, said Princeton Lyman, a former US special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan and now a senior adviser at the US Institute of Peace. “The AU [African Union] and the Arab League have very little interaction and no history of close cooperation around overlapping issues. Indeed, the AU is struggling to deal with such crises as South Sudan and Somalia. Outsiders are similarly limited in their structures to address this cross-regional set of developments,” he said. “For example, the US State Department divides this area into two different bureaus. Coordination of policy across them is hampered by the lack of appointees at senior levels where such coordination would take place. Unfortunately, the prospect of greater instability in the Horn is tragic but real.”