(credit: Wikipedia Commons) Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay nearly US$3billion to end an investigation of its role in Malaysia’s
(credit: au.int / Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahama By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The African Union Commission strongly condemns the ongoing violence in Nigeria during protests in Lagos, Nigeria that has resulted in multiple deaths and injuries. Moussa Faki Mahama, the
(credit: nato.usmission.gov / Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison said the COVID-19 pandemic thus far has not had any negative impact on the cohesiveness
Despite commendable progress over the past decade, continued social and political polarization in Côte d’Ivoire could lead to another bout of instability in a country long known as an anchor in West Africa. Ten years after a civil conflict that led to 3,000 deaths,
(credit: icc.twitter.com / International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is on a mission to bring ousted former Sudan President Omar al-Bashir to justice for alleged war crimes. ICC prosecutor Fatou
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. Trump administration has removed Sudan from a terrorism blacklist after the
twitter.com/ThierryMariani/ Thierry Mariani, French Member of Parliament of the European Union, Commission of Foreign Affaris meets former Ivory Coast prime minister Guillaume Soro Oct. 16, 2020 Brussels, BELGIUM. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Exiled Ivory Coast opposition leader Guillaume Soro met with members of
(md.usembassy.gov) Ambassador to U.S. Embassy in Moldova, Dereck J. Hogan By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ambassador Dereck J. Hogan, an African American, recalls how surprised people were upon seeing a black man for the first time when he served as a U.S. Foreign Service officer
UN MINUSMA Peacekeeping operation in Africa / (credit: un.org) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged authorities in west African nation Mali to act swiftly to apprehend those responsible for two separate attacks on Thursday
(credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times) Venezuelan Consulate General in New York City located at 7 E. 51st Street in Manhattan appears abandoned and in disrepair Oct. 15, 2020 By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES NEW YORK – Representatives of Venezuela’s ‘interim president’ Jaun