Molly Catherine Phee, a career diplomat, is President Biden’s nominee to become his U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. (Credit USIP.org) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Career Foreign Service member Molly Catherine Phee is poised to become President Biden’s top diplomat in Africa.
The Economic Community of West African States, known as ECOWAS, is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Leaders of the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) suspended Guinea from its
President Alpha Condé of Guinea, speaking at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, 20 January 2020 (Credit: DFID – UK Department for International Development) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The African Union strongly condemned the military coup in Guinea that forced long-time President Alpha
Eni S.p.A. is an Italian multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Rome with operations in 66 countries with a market capitalization of US$36.08 billion, as of 31 December 2020. (companieshistory.com) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMTACTIC TIMES Italian multinational energy company ENI announced this week
U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Thursday announced that the cargo ship HERMANN (Cuban-flagged, owned by Compania Navegacion Golfo SA) had been removed from Cuba sanctions lists. The OFAC also announced
Geraldine Byrne Nason, Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations and Security Council addresses the Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation June 30, 2021. (Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – IRELAND officially took over as
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES PENTAGON – WASHINGTON – The Biden Pentagon on Tuesday announced a $60 million aid package for Ukraine for additional Javelin anti-armor systems and other defensive lethal and non-lethal capabilities. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III Tuesday met with
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – A U.S. retaliatory airstrike killed 2 ISIS-K militants in Afghanistan Friday, the Pentagon confirmed today. The unmanned drone airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan was an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation against an ISIS-K planner, according
Embassy of the United States, Kabul, Afghanistan is currently closed with a small group of diplomats currently relocated and working out of Hamid Karzai International Airport. (Credit: Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – No U.S. military assets are currently guarding
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – The Pentagon confirmed Thursday that 12 U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing attack at Kabul airport. The attacks involved an explosive set off by a suicide bomber near the Abbey Gate entrance to