Foreign Policy published (subscription only) on 26 April 2021 an article titled "U.S. Africa Envoy: Ethiopia Crisis Could Make Syria Look Like 'Child's Play'" by Robbie Gramer.
The Biden administration named Jeffrey Feltman, former senior U.S. and United Nations diplomat, as the special envoy for the Horn of Africa. Among the immediate items on his agenda are the war in Ethiopia's Tigray Region, the Ethiopia-Sudan border dispute, and increased tension over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.