Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Representative to the United Nations By Atwine Allen – DIPLOMATIC TIMES CORRESPONDENT KAMPALA, UGANDA – A new Scramble for Africa is on! French President Emmanuel Macron made visits to Cameroon, Benin and Guinea Bissau last week amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Russia’s
United Nations Peacekeepers patrol Butembo in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure the security of local communities (UN Photo/Martine Perret) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Three UN peacekeepers and 15 protestors were
U.S. Congress Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) / Credit: meeks.gov) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul, Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee accused Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov of continuing to “peddle disinformation in Africa
Paul Kagame, President of The Republic of Rwanda (Photo Credit: World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Robert Menendez, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations said this week he favors putting on hold all security aid
By Atwine Allen – DIPLOMATIC TIMES CORRESPONDENT KAMPALA, UGANDA – Moscow dispatched its top diplomat Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Uganda Monday on his third stop on an African tour to win over the Continent against Western pressure over the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. Lavrov
U.S. Representative Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (Credit: meeks.house.gov) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Jim McGovern (D-MA), Chairman of the Rules Committee are calling
Source: Wikipedia Commons / American drones such as the remotely piloted General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, have been used primarily by the United States Air Force for counter-terror airstrikes in the Horn-of-African nation Somalia. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Africa Command confirmed it conducted
Maj. Gen. Andrew Rohling (right) U.S. Army Southern European Task Force-Africa outgoing commander, passes the guidon to Gen. Darryl Williams U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander during a during a change of command ceremony held at Hoekstra Field on Caserma Ederle, near Vicenza, Italy, on July
Margaret Cushing Whitman, former CEO of HP, is new U.S. Ambassador to Kenya (Credit: Wikipedia) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Former Hewlett Packard CEO Margaret ‘Meg’ Whitman has been confirmed by the Senate as the new U.S. Ambassador to Kenya. President Biden had selected
John T. Godfrey, is new U.S. Ambassador to Sudan (Credit: Department of State) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES John T. Godfrey, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, will serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Sudan. Godfrey is the first U.S. ambassador