United States Department of State seal By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States strongly condemned “the horrific terrorist attacks” in the Sahel Africa nation Niger, which killed 137 civilians on Sunday. The killings represent Niger’s worst civilian massacre in recent memory, surpassing
© UNHCR/Chris Melzer Eritrean children play in the Adi Harush refugee camp in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN has launched a probe into alleged serious abuses and rights violations in Ethiopia’s Tigray
(credit: africom.mil / staff Sgt. Daniel Garcia) U.S. forces met with French forces stationed in Djibouti Horn of Africa. U.S. troops received interoperability training from the French, including military operations on urbanized terrain (MOUT) training March 19, 2021. By Gary Raynaldo
Les Forces Armées Maliennes (FAMa) sont responsables de la défense de l’intégrité territoriale et la souveraineté du Mali. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES At least 30 Malian soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack this week in the northern region of the west African
(credit: elliott.gwu.edu) Mauritanian diplomat El-Ghassim Wane has been named the new UN envoy to Mali By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday announced the appointment of El-Ghassim Wane of Mauritania as his new Special
Credit: Wikipedia / Ivory Coast Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko died Wednesday March 10, 2021 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko has reportedly died from cancer in the German city of Freiburg, where he was receiving medical treatment. He was
U.K. female soldiers deployed to Mali in front of one of the three Royal Air Force (RAF) twin-rotor Chinooks in west Africa Sahel nation providing crucial airlift support for France’s Barkhane anti-terror mission March 08, 2021. (credit:twitterUKdefenseafrica) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES United Kingdom
The guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) arrived in Port Sudan, Sudan for a scheduled port visit, Mar. 1, 2021. (credit: usembassysudan) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The USS Winston Churchill arrived at Port Sudan last week as part of the
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON – PENTAGON – A surge of violent events by militant Islamist groups in Africa, led by escalations in the Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin, sets record and widens instability, according to a report by Africa Center
U.S. Africa Command forces stationed in Djibouti conducted an operational and logistics assessment in Gao, Mali, March 3, 2021 (credit: africom.mil) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Africa Command forces stationed in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa conducted an operational and logistics assessment