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SOUTH SUDAN UN Diplomat Arrested For Allegedly Raping New York Woman

United Nations diplomat from South Sudan Charles Dickens Imene Oliha (Photo: Facebook) By  Gary  Raynaldo      DIPLOMATIC  TIMES UNITED  NATIONS  –  NEW  YORK  –    A  South Sudanese diplomat with the United Nations allegedly raped a New York City woman twice in her apartment. 

UGANDA Youth Blame President Museveni Government For Rampant Unemployment

  Students in Uganda (Source:  United States Agency for International Development January 2008) By  Atwine  Allen   –  DIPLOMATIC  TIMES   CORRESPONDENT -KAMPALA,  UGANDA –  (EDITOR’S NOTE:  Diplomatic Times East Africa Correspondent Atwine Allen interviewed several students who are studying Bachelor’s in Education  at the Bugema University

US Signs Agreement To Return $23 MILLON To NIGERIA Looted By General Abacha

The late Nigerian military leader and President Sani Abacha (Source: Wikipedia Commons) By Gary  Raynaldo    DIPLOMATIC  TIMES Nigeria’s late military dictator Sani Abacha reportedly looted the east African nation of billions of dollars before he died in 1998.  The Nigerian government Wednesday signed a

UN Chief Condemns Islamist Terrorist Attack in SOMALIA Hotel That Killed 21

By  Gary  Raynaldo   DIPLOMATIC  TIMES UNITED  NATIONS  –   NEW  YORK  –  UN Secretary-General António Guterres “strongly”  condemned a “terrorist” attack on the Hayat hotel in Mogadishu Friday that left at least 21 persons dead.  Somalian authorities said Islamist militants sieged the upscale hotel in Somalia’s

GERMANY Suspends Military Operation in West Africa MALI

  German peacekeeping operations in Mali under the United Nation’s MINUSMA mission (Photo: Bundeswehr/Guido Ritter) By Gary Raynaldo     DIPLOMATIC  TIMES Germany has halted peacekeeping operations in Mali under the United Nation’s MINUSMA mission amid concerns over the safety of soldiers.  German Defense Minister Christine

PEACEFUL KENYA ELECTION A LESSON IN DEMOCRACY FOR EAST AFRICAN COUNTRIES

William Samoei Ruto is the Fifth President of the Republic of Kenya (Source: World Trade Organization) By  Atwine  Allen   –   DIPLOMATIC  TIMES  CORRESPONDENT KAMPALA   –   UGANDA  –   Kenya’s Independent Electoral Bureau Commission (IEBC) officially declared Deputy President William Ruto of the Kenya Kwanza Alliance as

U.S. AFRICOM Airstrike Kills 13 Al-Shabaab Terrorists In SOMALIA

Source: Wikipedia Commons /  American drones such as the remotely piloted General Atomics MQ-1 Predator,  have been used primarily by the United States Air Force for counter-terror airstrikes in the Horn-of-African nation Somalia. By  Gary  Raynaldo   –   DIPLOMATIC  TIMES WASHINGTON  DC   –  U.S. Africa Command