Credit: Federalforeignoffice / Germany Foreign Minister Heiko Maas meets Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister Alpha Barry on arrival in capital city Ouagadougou Feb. 26, 2019 /© Xander Heinl/photothek.net By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Germany Foreign Minister Heiko Maas embarked on a tour of West Africa
Photo Credit: MINUSMA/Marco Dormino / UN Peacekeepers during operation in eastern Mali city of Ansongo By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Three UN peacekeepers from Guinea were killed Friday near west African nation Mali’s capital city Bamako. It was the second deadly attack on UN
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara declaration that the common currency, the French CFA, “is solid, appreciated and well managed” left many poor citizens of west and central Africa who use the money in a state of shock. Ouattara was
Credit: wikipedia / By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Cameroon government blamed separatists of setting a hospital on fire Monday in the southwestern town of Kumba that killed four people. Kumba lies about 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of Buea, capital of the Southwest region which
Credit: African Union / Rwandan President Paul Kagame hands over the baton to the new Chairperson of the African Union Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Feb. 10, 2019 at the AU’s Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The appointment of Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The surprise move by the United States to cut some $17 million in military aid to west-central Africa nation Cameroon should put France to shame. The U.S. announced last Thursday it is slashing the nearly $20 million in aid earmarked
Credit: wikipedia commons / Coat Of Arms Republic Of Cameroon By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Republic of Cameroon is distancing itself far from a ministers’ bizarre comments that were construed as being ‘Anti-Semitic’. Cameroon deputy justice minister Jean de Dieu Momo on Sunday apparently
Credit: twitter.com / Jean De Dieu Momo, Cameroon Minister Delegate at the Ministry of justice The Israeli Embassy in Cameroon has said it is outraged at comments made by Cameroon’s Deputy Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Momo in which he appeared to justify the Holocaust, in
Credit: wikipedia / Cameroonian embassy in Paris, France was occupied and ransacked by anti-Paul Biya protesters Jan. 27, 2019 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Opposition to Cameroon President Paul Biya’s regime took on a bold dimension last Sunday in several European capitals. Cameroonians occupied the
Credit: agencecamerounpresse.com / Cameroon’s main opposition leader Maurice Kamto By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Cameroon’s main opposition leader, Maurice Kamto, who insists he won last October’s presidential election, has been arrested and charged with insurrection. The central-west Africa nation is gripped by violence in the