By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES National Security Advisor John Bolton presented the White House’s Africa strategy last Thursday that is aimed at increasing efforts to counter Russian and Chinese influence on the Continent. The Strategy is focused on three areas: advancing U.S. trade and commercial ties in Africa,
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for a “credible” investigation into journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, AFP reported Sunday. “It is absolutely essential to have a credible investigation and to have the punishment of those that were
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES European Union leaders meeting at the EU Council Summit meeting in Brussels gave a thumbs down to British Prime Minister Theresa May’s bid for a renegotiation on Brexit deal. The British leader arrived at the two-day Brussels Summit Dec. 13,
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Transnational crime is spreading across the African continent, according to a report by the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL). The report found crimes are increasingly converging across Africa, underlining how transnational threats cannot be treated in isolation, according to INTERPOL. Published
By Gary Raynaldo Diplomatic Times Fatou Bensouda is a woman who hunts tyrants around the world to bring to justice for war crimes. Bensouda is the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court located in The Hague Netherlands. She has been busy lately. During
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The US Senate voted Thursday to withdraw American support for Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, in a rebuke to President Donald Trump. It’s the first time the Senate has voted to withdraw forces from a war Congress didn’t approve.
DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF AFP news agency says the Gabonese government has confirmed President Ali Bongo’s recent bout of ill health was the result of a stroke. Gabon’s President Ali Bongo has for the first time, since his hospitalisation in Saudi Arabia last month, appeared in
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Speaking before the UN Security Council in New York Wednesday, U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “it is clear that the Iranian regime’s ballistic missile activity has grown since the nuclear deal.” Pompeo urged the UN to reimpose a ban
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Central African Republic militia leader Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona was arrested today in France pursuant to an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes, the ICC reported. The Hague-based war tribunal submitted a request to French authorities
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Today is International Human Rights Day as the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights turns 70. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a ground breaking historic document that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December