Credit: britannica.com/ Alassane Ouattara President Of CÔTE D’IVOIRE (Ivory Coast) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has formally accepted the nomination of the ruling party to be its presidential candidate in October’s election despite it being “illegal” and
United Nations Security Council at UN world headquarters in New York. The Security Council held an open debate titled “Addressing the Issue of Linkages between Terrorism and Organised Crime” August 6, 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The
Credit: Wikipedia / Citgo Petroleum Corporation (CITGO), a Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. prosecutors charged a former Citgo Petroleum manager in connection with an international bribery and money laundering scheme. Jose Luis De
Credit: U.S. Department of State / U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook at the announcement of the creation of the Iran Action Group in the Press Briefing Room at the Department of State, Aug. 16, 2018. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES
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: Gary Raynaldo / Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield , an American diplomat who served as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the United States Department of State’s Bureau of African Affairs from 2013 to 2017, was the moderator of Honoring Dr. Ralph J.
Credit: cars.com / Lamborghini Urus DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF A Houston man has been arrested and charged with fraudulently obtaining $1.6 million in COVID-19 business relief money, some of which he spent on personal purchases such as a Lamborghini Urus and visits to strip clubs. Lee
Credit: Linkedin/ Tianna Spears is a former American diplomat who worked at the US consulate in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, Texas USA By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES For Tianna Spears, an African American diplomat, a U.S. Diplomatic Passport
French brigadier-chef Andy Fila died in north-central Africa Chad on July 31, 2020. / Etat Major des Armées By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES A French Operation Barkhane soldier was killed Friday in a maintenance operation in north-central Africa nation Chad after a
Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elias / Dian Triansyah Djani, Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of August 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – INDONESIA officially took over as