Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo (credit icc.int/ By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The International Criminal Court appeals judges on Wednesday upheld the acquittals of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo and former minister Charles Blé Goudé on charges of war crimes. In January
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES In a sharp rebuke to the Trump-era mindset that condemned transgender people and banned them from joining the military, the Pentagon Wednesday issued new policies allowing them to to serve openly as transgender in U.S. forces. The policy
Nigeria’s president Buhari chairing the 55th ordinary session of the ECOWAS. Adam Abu Bashal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Benjamin Maiangwa, Durham University In an article published in 1994 titled The Coming Anarchy, the American journalist Robert Kaplan predicted an impending Armageddon for West Africa due to what
(credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times ) Human skeletal remains that could be slaves from the 1800s were found in the basement of a million dollar stately home located in the Q Street section of Georgetown, DC. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a virtual town hall meeting with U.S. Mission to the United Nations staff, from the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 29, 2021. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett] By Gary Raynaldo
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON – PENTAGON – A Department of Defense official said U.S. forces and their families will be separated from unvaccinated migrant children housed at a vacant dormitory at Joint Base San Antonio – Lackland, Texas. The DOD last week
(credit: twitter.com/AmbaFranceLibye) French ambassador Béatrice le Fraper du Hellen (right, next to France flag) as France embassy re-opened in the Libyan city Tripoli March 29, 2021. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES France reopened its embassy in the Libyan city Tripoli Monday as
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON – PENTAGON – The Biden Pentagon said the Department of Defense will be ready to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to all eligible beneficiaries by May 1, in keeping with a White House announcement that on that date,
United States Department of State seal By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States strongly condemned “the horrific terrorist attacks” in the Sahel Africa nation Niger, which killed 137 civilians on Sunday. The killings represent Niger’s worst civilian massacre in recent memory, surpassing
© UNHCR/Chris Melzer Eritrean children play in the Adi Harush refugee camp in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN has launched a probe into alleged serious abuses and rights violations in Ethiopia’s Tigray