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Unlike the Middle East, which is frequented by senior officials from the United States government, when it comes to Africa, the US prefers to send its second-in-command. This is not new State Department protocol, however, as Congo’s 4 million deaths and Rwanda’s 800,000 deaths rarely received senior level treatment, and with Darfur only recently becoming a priority. In the case of the current conflict in Somalia, however, the US must rethink its second-rate treatment of Africa as it could play an important mediator role between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Islamic Courts Union (ICU).
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