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,
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