Credit: Wikipedia / Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has resigned after a military mutiny that has plunged the west African nation in to political chaos. Early Tuesday before the surprise announcement on Wednesday, President
Credit; Wikipedia / Abidjan is Ivory Coast’s largest city and its economic capital. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Four people have been killed in violent confrontations in Ivory Coast amid anger over President Alassane Ouattara’s decision to run for a third term many
Credit: Wikipedia / Monsieur Pascal Affi N’Guessan, du Front Populaire Ivoirien By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Former Ivory Coast prime minister Pascal Affi N’Guessan believes he is the man who will be the next President of the west African nation. The party of Ivory
Wikipedia Commons / Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angola president José Eduardo dos Santos By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos on Tuesday announced that she is to step down from the board of Unitel, the country’s largest telecommunications operator, in which
A new report published in South African newspaper The Mail and Guardian has shed light on the opaque world of the American military presence in Africa. Last year, elite U.S. Special Operations forces were active in 22 African countries. This accounts for 14 percent of all
Credit: Wikipedia / Central African Republic (CAR) flag By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States Treasury Department Friday sanctioned Bi Sidi Souleymane, a notorious leader of a murderous group that has committed numerous human rights abuses and displaced thousands of people in the
Credit: britannica.com/ Alassane Ouattara President Of CÔTE D’IVOIRE (Ivory Coast) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has formally accepted the nomination of the ruling party to be its presidential candidate in October’s election despite it being “illegal” and
Source: Getty/AFP / Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, Zimbabwe businessman DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The United States Wednesday slapped sanctions on businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei and his firm Sakunda Holdings for materially assisting senior Zimbabwean government officials involved in public corruption. “Tagwirei has longstanding ties to the ruling party
Credit: icc.int / Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, who is currently freed conditionally by the International Criminal Court (ICC), has applied for a
Credit: Wikipedia / Minister of Defense of Ivory Coast Hamed Bakayoko has been named prime minister after acting as interim PM since the sudden death of Amadou Gon Coulibaly By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Minister of Defense of Ivory Coast, Hamed Bakayoko,