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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced Thursday that Beijing would appoint a special envoy to the Horn of Africa, signalling his country’s intention to play a greater role in the conflict-torn region. The announcement came as a US envoy was due to arrive in Ethiopia to encourage talks to end more than a year of war in the country’s north. Wang, on a three-nation tour of Africa, said China wanted to encourage dialogue to overcome peace and security challenges plaguing the Horn. “China will appoint a special envoy of the Chinese foreign ministry,” he told reporters in the Kenyan port city of…