Sudanese army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is the head of the Sovereign Council (Source: Sudanese Television screen) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Sudan has become a powder keg waiting to explode after military chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan seized power in a
United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin (Credit: Department of Defense) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – PENTAGON – U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin condemned this week’s terrorist attacks in Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates that killed three
A French military helicopter over the Nigerien town Madama, which serves as a forward operating base for the French, Niger and Chad armies as part of Operation Barhkane counter-terror mission in the Sahel. (Credit: Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – PENTAGON –
Ambassador Lucy Tamlyn will serve as Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan (Credit: Department of State) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. Department of State is dispatching Ambassador Lucy Tamlyn, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (Photo: UN) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the government of West African nation Mali to announce an “acceptable” vote timetable for holding elections. The UN chief made the
Mairama carries her son in a wrap at a site for internally displaced families in Ouahigouya, northern Burkina Faso in Sahel (© UNHCR/Benjamin Loyseau) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) called on Friday for concerted
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) , is a military alliance, based in Brussels with 30 European and North American countries. (credit: wikipedia commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NATO has no plans to join France’s counter-terror operations in the troubled African Sahel region despite growing violence and reported activity by
Ennead Architects of New York City rendering of its design of new U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, Nigeria. (Credit: ennead) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Department of State awarded a $319 million contract to Illinois-based contractor Pernix Group to build a new U.S.
Credit: ecowas.int/ The Economic Community of West African States, also known as ECOWAS, is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) imposed economic and diplomatic
Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, on Tuesday met with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian at Iran’s embassy in Qatar’s capital Doha. (Credit: Islamic Republic of Iran, Ministry of Foreign Affairs) DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF Ismail Haniyeh, head of