Uganda President Idi Amin at UN (United Nations, New York) Oct. 01, 1975 (Wikipedia Commons) By Atwine Allen – DIPLOMATIC TIMES CORRESPONDENT KAMPALA, UGANDA – This is the 50th anniversary of the expulsion of Indians from Uganda in 1972 by President Idi Amin. On August
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
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
(Photo by Atwine Allen / ©Diplomatic Times) Congolese refugees inside the Nyakabande Transit Camp in Kisoro district of Uganda who have fled the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after an outbreak of fighting in March between March 23 (M23 Movement M23) rebels and Armed Forces
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Two UN peacekeepers from Egypt were killed Tuesday when their armoured vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device some 60 kilometres northeast of Gao in Mali. Another nine Egyptian blue helmets were also
(Photo: by Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times) Sudanese woman wearing the colors of her flag’s homeland Sudan at protest in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations Headquarters in NY City March 14, 2019, calling attention to the role of Women in the uprising, many