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On 14 July 2018, President Donald J. Trump nominated Donald Yamamoto as the United States Ambassador to Somalia. Yamamoto was subsequently confirmed for the position on 19 October 2018. While the US Mission to Somalia is based on the grounds of the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, a permanent diplomatic mission was established in Mogadishu in December 2018.

Donald Yukio Yamamoto (born 1953) is an American diplomat and the current United States Ambassador to Somalia. Before that he was the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs with a term of appointment starting September 3, 2017 until July 23, 2018. Yamamoto previously served as the Senior Vice President, International Programs and Outreach at the National Defense University from 2016–2017. Prior to that, he was Senior Advisor to the Director General of the Foreign Service on personnel reform from 2015–2016; Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Mission Somalia office in Mogadishu in 2016; and in senior positions in Kabul, Mazar e-Sharif, and Bagram, Afghanistan from 2014–2015.

He was the former acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (March 30, 2013 to August 5, 2013), U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia (2006–2009) and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary within the Bureau of African Affairs. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in November 2006 and presented his credentials to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in Addis Ababa on December 6, 2006. He was formerly the U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti (2000–2003), and U.S. Ambassador to Eritrea ad interim (1997–1998).

From April 22–23, 2006, Yamamoto met with current Chadian President Idriss Déby to discuss Chad's dispute with the World Bank over allocation of its petroleum funds and the possibility of a U.S.-led, United Nations-monitored peace keeping force to end the Chadian-Sudanese conflict.

Chad produces around 100,000 bpd (barrels of oil per day, 2013 figures) which travels through the Chad-Cameroon pipeline, owned and operated by US companies ExxonMobil and Chevron and Malaysian Petronas. The Déby administration threatened to cut off the supply of oil at the end of April if the international community did not intervene to end the rebellion or if Exxon Mobil did not pay the government $100 million. The dispute was later resolved, and Chad's oil continues to flow to other countries.

Yamamoto became acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs on March 30, 2013, replacing Johnnie Carson.

Ambassador Yamamoto graduated from Columbia College and received a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. He is the recipient of a Presidential Distinguished Service Award, Presidential Meritorious Service Award, Secretary's Distinguished Honor Award, over a dozen Senior Performance Awards, the State Department's 2006 Robert Frasure Memorial Award for advancing conflict resolution in Africa, and numerous other awards.

Yamamoto met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on April 22, 2006, to discuss the ongoing process of democratization in Ethiopia and the Ethio-Eritrea boundary dispute. Both leaders were positive about the outcome of the meeting.

Yamamoto entered the United States Foreign Service in 1980, serving primarily in Africa, with assignments in the Middle East and Asia. He received a master's degree from the National War College in 1996 and worked on Capitol Hill on a Congressional Fellowship in 1991.