U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (US DOD) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will be traveling to the continent of Africa from September 23-28 visiting Djibouti, Kenya, and Angola, the Pentagon announced. Djibouti, a small east African nation
President Joe Biden has nominated Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to succeed Army Gen. Mark A. Milley as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Credit: U.S. Airforce) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – Air Force Gen.
United Kingdom proscribes Wagner mercenary group as a terrorist organization By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Russian mercenary organization, Wagner Group, has been proscribed as a terrorist organization after an order was laid in Parliament this month. The order comes into force with immediate
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, Addresses Opening of 2023 SDG Summit at UN General Assembly in New York Sept. 18, 2023. (UN Photo Cia Pak) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – World leaders converged on New
UN Secretary-General António Guterres (left) meets with Miguel Díaz Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, in Havana at the G77+China Summit Sept. 14, 2023. (UN Photo: Eskinder Debebe) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the leaders from
The International Criminal Court (ICC) headquartered in the Hague Netherlands. By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a field office in Kyiv that is the largest outside its Hague headquarters in the Netherlands to probe war crimes, Ukraine Prosecutor
U.S. and Zambian military officers in front of one of the helicopters donated to Zambia by the U.S. government in Lusaka Sept. 12, 2023. (Credit: AFRICOM) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States will supply southern African nation Zambia with four Bell
Dennis Francis, President of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the first plenary meeting of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly Sept. 05, 2023. (UN Photo/Manuel Elías) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW
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. (Source: Creative Commons) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES A suspected drone strike in the vicinity
UN MINUSMA Peacekeeping operation in Africa / (credit: un.org) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN is preparing for an “unprecedented” withdrawal of some 12,947 peacekeeping troops in violence-ridden Mali. In June, the military junta in the