(Photo by Gary Raynaldo ©Diplomatic Times) The United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Sudan, Volker Perthes, briefs reporters outside UN Security Council chamber at UN world headquarters in New York after meeting on situation in Sudan May 24, 2022. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES
Germany is stepping up its support for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), by deploying 300 additional soldiers for a total of 1,400 in the troubled west African nation as France pulls its forces out. (Credit: Photo: Michael Kappeler /dpabundesregierung.de) By
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (left) briefs reporters together with Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in Abuja, after their meeting during the Secretary-General’s visit to the country May 04, 2022. (Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS
The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), is a multidimensional mission (military, police and civilian), authorised by the African Union and mandated by the United Nations Security Council (Credit: ATMIS) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The international community has condemned a reported attack by
United States Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (NY), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (Credit: uscongress) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. members of Congress have warned of Russia’s growing “malign” influence in the continent of Africa. To that end, Congress on Friday passed the “Countering
United Nations peacekeepers on patrol in the Eastern Sector of Mali. (Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Mali has descended into a dangerous, “endless cycle of instability” amid a military coup, on-going extremist
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III meets with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Chidi Blyden; Angolan Minister of State and Chief of Security Affairs Office to the President of the Republic Francisco Pereira Furtado; and Angolan Chief of the Armed Forces
U.S. Rep. Gregory Weldon Meeks, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs (meeks.house.gov) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Congressional members Wednesday condemned horrific reports of Malian troops and suspected Russian mercenaries allegedly executing about 300 people in central Mali, west Africa. Human Rights Watch said
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military officer, Marxist revolutionary, and pan-Africanist President of west African nation Burkina Faso. Sankara was assassinated in 1987. (Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaoré was sentenced to life in prison
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 West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS Friday said it will keep crippling sanctions