The entrance to Camp 1 in Guantanamo Bay’s Camp Delta. (Wikipedia Kathleen T. Rhem) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Pentagon announced over the weekend it is halting a controversial plan to offer coronavirus vaccinations to detainees at Guantánamo Bay after it caused
U.S. Africa Command’s Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Engagement, Ambassador Andrew Young met with leaders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the DRC capital city Kinshasha Jan. 27-29, 2021 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Africa Command’s Deputy to the Commander
(credit: twitter.com/SomaliainUSA) Former Somali ambassador to the United States Abdikarim Ali Omar By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Former Somali ambassador to the United States Abdikarim Ali Omar has died in the United States of America at the age of 70. Omar died Jan. 20,
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UNITED KINGDOM officially took over the rotating Presidency of the UN Security Council Monday. The presidency of the council is held by each of the members for one month, following the English
(Credit: By Gary Raynaldo ©Diplomatic Times) Firefighters on scene of a four-alarm fire at an apartment building on West 115th Street in Harlem section of New York City on Jan. 30, 2021 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NEW YORK CITY – At least
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has asked the Pentagon to assist with President Biden’s goal to vaccinate 100 million people against the coronavirus in his first 100 days in office, John F. Kirby the Department of Defense’s (DOD)
(credit: Wikipedia) Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) Parliament voted Thursday to remove prime minister Sylvestre Ilunga Ilunkamba in the latest move in an on-going power struggle in the Sub-Sahara
(credit: defense.gouv.fr) French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin and France’s Armed Forces Minister Pledged Cooperation in fighting terrorism in the troubled AFRICA Sahel region. The two high-ranking defense officials spoke
U.S. Rear Adm. Heidi Berg , U.S. Africa Command Director of Intelligence meets with Maj. Gen. Osman Siraj, commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces Fitness and Sports Directorate in Sudan Jan. 25, 2021 (credit: africom.mil) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. AFRICA COMMAND senior
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III spoke by phone Wednesday with German Minister of Defence Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to reinforce the value the United States places on the bilateral defense relationship with “one of our closest NATO Allies.”