Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor died Thursday December 10, 2020 at age 85. (photo: Abdoulaziz Adili Toro) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States, Sylvanus Nsofor has died at the age of 85. Ambassador Nsofor was
(credit: twitter.com/presidenceci) Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Alassane Ouattara has been sworn in office Monday for a controversial third term as the president of West African nation Ivory Coast. Ouattara was re-elected president October 31. The main opposition
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020. (U.S. Embassy Khartoum photo by Alsanosi Ali) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. has officially removed Sudan from its list of state sponsors
(credit: cc-cpi.int) International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda presents The-Hague, Netherlands-based war tribunal’s report to the UN Security Council regarding the situation in Darfur, Sudan Dec. 10, 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The International Criminal Court arrest warrant against ousted former Sudanese
(credit: Gary Raynaldo ©Diplomatic Times) A two-alarm fire started early Thursday morning, gutting a fitness center located in Manhattan’s Upper West Side at 250 West 106th Street By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NEW YORK – A building housing a neighborhood fitness gym on Manhattan’s
(credit: au.int) Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat (left) and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Africa has so far registered more than 2,200,000 cases of COVID-19 and
Photo by: Gary Raynaldo / © Diplomatic Times / U.S. Embassy located in Havana, Cuba. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES HAVANA SYNDROME. It is the term given to a set of medical signs and symptoms reportedly experienced by United States and Canadian embassy staff
General Lloyd Austin III, US CENTRAL COMMAND UNITED STATES ARMY (credit: Wikipedia) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES President-elect Joe Biden plans to name Lloyd Austin, a retired U.S. Army four-star general, as his pick for secretary of defense, who would
The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF REPORT The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) has issued a global alert to law enforcement across its 194 member countries warning them to prepare for organized crime networks targeting COVID-19 vaccines, both physically and online. The INTERPOL
Credit: ©ICC-CPI/ Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands January 2019. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ivory Coast has given back the passport of its former president Laurent Gbagbo, paving the way for his return home to