Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elias / Dian Triansyah Djani, Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of August 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – INDONESIA officially took over as
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – International Nelson Mandela Day was celebrated on July 18- the birthday of the great South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Credit: issafrica.org / The crisis-stricken Sahel currently epitomises the myriad of challenges facing the African continent By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The crisis in the Sahel region of west Africa is worsening amid violent extremism, drought, localised conflict over natural resources, transnational organised crime,
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES BRITISH AIRWAYS is retiring its entire fleet of Boeing 747 aircraft, fondly known as ‘The Queen of the Skies’, after nearly 50 years of service as the airline suffers a severe travel downturn amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The
Credit: un.org/ MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko / The G5 Sahel HQ destroyed by a terrorist attack on 29 June 2018 in Mopti, Mali. The terror threat in the Sahel continues unabated despite a massive deployment UN peacekeepers and French troops tasked with halting jihadist’s attacks. By Gary
UN Photo/Laura Jarriel / Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, in the President of the United Nations Security Council for the month of July 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – GERMANY officially took
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The Security Council on Monday extended the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) until Aug. 31, 2020. The resolution requests the UN Secretary-General to continue to inform the Security
DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF U.S. Army Gen. Stephen Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command, met with Ismail Omar Guelleh, president of the Republic of Djibouti, and other senior leaders of the East African nation this week. This was Townsend’s first trip abroad since the coronavirus pandemic unfolded.
Credit: europoleuropa.eu / Catherine De Bolle, Executive Director of EUROPOL, the law enforcement organization for the EU. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES EUROPOL launched the new European Financial and Economic Crime Centre (EFECC) Friday at its headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands to stay a
Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten / Nicolas de Rivière (left), Permanent Representative of the Republic of France to the United Nations, presents his credentials to Secretary-General António Guterres July 8, 2019. Monsieur de Rivière is the President of the UN Security Council the month of June,