By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES The security situation in the African Sahel region has deteriorated significantly during the past decade amid terrorism and violent extremist groups there. The US Department of Defense “will support African-led counterterrorism operations to disrupt the most acute terrorist threats,
The G5 anti-jihadist force operates in Africa’s Sahel area By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES West African nations Burkina Faso and Niger have withdrawn from the G5 Sahel anti-jihadi force effective November 9, the two countries announced in a joint press statement this weekend. The
By Gary Raynaldo -DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Two UN peacekeepers from Burkina Faso were killed in the Timbuktu region of West African nation Mali, and eight others injured in an attack by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). The UN Mission in
Luc Hallade, Ambassador of France to Burkina Faso (bf.ambafrance.org) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES Burkina Faso’s military regime has expelled France’s ambassador amid growing anti-French sentiment. Burkin Faso government spokesman Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo confirmed to The Associated Press that Ambassador Luc Hallade had been
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo speaks during United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City in September 2022. (UN Photo) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ghana scrambled to undo the damage that caused a serious diplomatic row with Burkina Faso after
U.S. House of Representative Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) / (Credit: meeks.house.gov) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Congressional members Thursday condemned the recent military coup in Burkina Faso, saying it is part of a larger, “more alarming picture of anti-democratic movements” in West Africa.
Michel Xavier Biang, Permanent Representative of Gabon to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of October, chairs the Security Council meeting on the situation concerning Iraq at UN world headquarters Oct, 04, 2022. (UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe) By Gary Raynaldo
H.E. Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, President of Faso, Head of State, President of the Council of Ministers of Burkina Faso, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-seventh session at UN world headquarters Sept. 23, 2022 (Photo: UN photo/ Cia Pak) By Gary Raynaldo
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military officer, Marxist revolutionary, and pan-Africanist President of west African nation Burkina Faso. Sankara was assassinated in 1987. (Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaoré was sentenced to life in prison
U.S. Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander of AFRICOM, met with Army General Thierry Burkhard, Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces meet in Paris, France Jan. 24, 2022. (Photo: Jean-Christophe Mantrant / Etat-Major des Armees) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Gen.