US President Barack Obama was in the Middle East this week, and made a much anticipated speech at the University of Cairo in Egypt, to signal a “new beginning” in relations with the Arab and Muslim world, which had been strained by his successor George Bush’s “war on terror”. Mr Dan Sreebny, Senior Advisor for Regional Media at United States Embassy, London, answered Saturday Nation’s e-mail questions about the Obama administration’s diplomatic goals in the Middle East and Africa.
Q: The security of the Middle East, and the region’s ability to prosper through commerce, cannot be separated from that of the northern Africa, the Horn of Africa and, of recent, the safety of the shipping lanes off the Gulf of Aden. However, this region is now threatened by Somali piracy and the conflict in Somalia. What new initiatives is the US planning to deal with the threats posed by dysfunction in Somalia?
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