Operation Barkhane is France’s Counterterrorism Forces in Africa. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATICT TIMES French troops killed a top commander of an al-Qaeda-linked armed group in West African nation Mali this week, France’s Defence Minister announced. Bah Ag Moussa, the military head of the Group to
President Alassane Ouattara during a meeting with Henri Konan Bédié to initiate a post-election dialogue in Abidjan, Ivory Coast November 11, 2020 (twitter.com/AOuattara) By Sara Abraham and Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES ABIDJAN – Côte d’Ivoire – Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and rival
(credit: berkleycenter.georgetown.edu / Ambassador Edward Perkins (June 8, 1928 – November 7, 2020) was U.S. ambassador to South Africa under President Ronald Reagan. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ambassador (ret.) Edward Perkins died on Saturday evening at the age of 92. Ambassador Edward Perkins
Embassy of Saudi Arabia, The Hague Netherlands (Wikipedia Commons) DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The Saudi Arabian Embassy in The Hague Netherlands was sprayed by a fusillade of gunshots in the early hours of Thursday morning. No one was injured in the incident in which at
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell “warmly” congratulated President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris for their “historic victory” in the U.S. elections. Borrell said the EU is looking forward to better ties with the U.S. under
(credit: pmo.gov.et/pm) H.E. Abiy Ahmed Ali , Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The African Union called for a ceasefire in north Ethiopia where federal troops are fighting local Tigrayan authorities in an escalating bloody conflict in which hundreds of
UN Photo /Daniel Getachew Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-General (left), meets the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the capital, Abuja Nov. 9, 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed is on a two-week
(credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Times / U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo at press briefing at Department of State headquarters in Washington D.C. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES As multiple world leaders have quickly recognized Joe Biden as the U.S. Presidential-Elect, Secretary of State
(credit: icctwitter) International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor called on Libya’s warring parties to implement their recent historic ceasefire agreement, calling it a “welcome concrete development”
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The NATO chief joins a chorus of several other European leaders who promptly recognized the president-elect’s win. “I warmly welcome the election of