United States Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States is closing the US Embassy in Kyiv and relocating diplomatic personnel in the country to the western Ukraine city of Lviv as fears of Russian invasion rise. “I have no higher
Terence A. Todman became one of the most senior Black members of the Foreign Service during his four decades in diplomacy. (© Frank Johnston/The Washington Post/Getty Images) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – Ambassador Terence A. Todman paved the way for nonwhite
Sudanese protestors raising flag of Sudan (Wikipedia) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. diplomats dispatched to Sudan this week amid the country’s political crisis strongly condemned killings and rapes of pro-democracy protestors by government security forces. Two senior U.S. diplomats are visiting in capital
Sudanese army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is the head of the Sovereign Council (Source: Sudanese Television screen) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Sudan has become a powder keg waiting to explode after military chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan seized power in a
Ambassador Lucy Tamlyn will serve as Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan (Credit: Department of State) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. Department of State is dispatching Ambassador Lucy Tamlyn, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,
Ennead Architects of New York City rendering of its design of new U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, Nigeria. (Credit: ennead) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Department of State awarded a $319 million contract to Illinois-based contractor Pernix Group to build a new U.S.
U.S. Embassy in Niamey, Niger, West Africa, located in the Yantala neighborhood of Niamey (Credit: state.gov/niamey) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The new U.S. Embassy in Niamey, Niger has been certified LEED Platinum by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). USGBC’s LEED green building program certifies
Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe) President Biden has appointed former UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman as the new U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Apr. 23, 2021. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey
Annalena Baerbock (GRÜNE), Germany’s Foreign Minister, Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages bei einer Plenarsitzung des Deutschen Bundestages am 30. Oktober 2020 in Berlin. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock put Russia on notice Wednesday that its aggression in Ukraine will come with a
Molly Catherine Phee, a career diplomat, is President Biden’s U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. (Credit USIP.org) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES President Biden’s top diplomat in Africa Molly Catherine Phee said diversity within the U.S. State Department is “entirely insufficient and