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 African leaders urged Mali’s opposition groups to join the country’s
Credit: facebook / ECOWAS has named Former Nigerian President Dr. Goodluck Eble Jonathan as Special Envoy to Mali DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF Former Nigeria President Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been appointed by the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, as a special envoy to
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Ivory Coast VP Daniel Kablan Duncan By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Cote d’Ivoire’s Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan has resigned for “personal reasons”, the government of the west African nation announced on Monday. The surprise announcement further plunged the country
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire Amadou Gon Coulibaly By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Ivory Coast’s prime minister and the ruling party’s candidate for the October presidential election, has died suddenly. The 61-year-old Gon Coulibaly, who had heart
Credit: youtubentvkenya / American Gregory Dow has pleaded guilty to engaging in Illicit sexual conduct with minors in the Republic of Kenya By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES An American man plead guilty to engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors in the Republic of
Ink Drop/Shutterstock Sheriff Folarin, Covenant University The traditional leadership and redeemer posture of Nigeria in Africa has, in recent years, been put into question. Issues like corruption and infrastructural decay have held the country down from playing a leadership role in Africa. As have
WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi, Lagos State University Racism against Nigerians – and other Africans – is not new in China. Africa-China history is marked by solidarity, but also dented by old and new racism. Nothing at this moment suggests that the
A red marks the face of Felicien Kabuga, one of the last key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, on a wanted poster at the Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit office in Kigali, Rwanda. Photo by SIMON WOHLFAHRT/AFP via Getty Images Jonathan Beloff, SOAS, University
Credit: U.S. Department of State / Genocide fugitive, Félicien Kabuga, has reportedly been arrested Saturday in Paris. The U.S. had a $5 Million bounty for the arrest of Kabuga. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES French police arrested Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga Saturday
Wikipedia Commons / Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angola president José Eduardo dos Santos By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Isabel dos Santos, daughter of former Angola president José Eduardo dos Santos, called for her assets to be unfrozen, and accused the Angolan