Ambassador Lucy Tamlyn will serve as Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan (Credit: Department of State) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. Department of State is dispatching Ambassador Lucy Tamlyn, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,
Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe) President Biden has appointed former UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman as the new U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Apr. 23, 2021. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey
United States Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeff Feltman (Photo Credit: Wikipedia Commons Patrick Tsui/FCO) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman is urging a diplomatic solution to the year-long military conflict
Logo of United Nations at UN world headquarters in New York (Photo credit: Diplomatic Times) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The United Nations reported Thursday that six detained UN staff members were released. At least 16 UN
Flag of Eritrea (Source: Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States has sanctioned the Eritrean military and the country’s ruling party because “Eritrea’s destabilizing presence in Ethiopia” is prolonging the year-long bloody conflict. Since the outbreak of the military conflict in 2020,
Seal of the United States Department Of State (Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The Department of State has ordered the departure of non-emergency American government employees and their families in Ethiopia amid armed conflict, civil unrest and possibly shortages in the Horn
Abiy Ahmed Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Credit: twitter.com) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The year-long civil war in Ethiopia has reached a crisis point as several rebel groups advance toward the Horn of Africa nation’s capital city Addis Ababa
Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) Chief of Staff General Filipos Woldeyohannes (Credit: tesfanews.net ) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States is designating the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) Chief of Staff General Filipos Woldeyohannes (Filipos) for his connection with serious human rights abuse committed
Robert F. Godec is the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs (Credit: U.S. Department of State) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States’ top diplomat in Africa said the U.S. “is gravely concerned” about the armed conflict in Tigray that
© UNHCR/Chris Melzer Eritrean children play in the Adi Harush refugee camp in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN has launched a probe into alleged serious abuses and rights violations in Ethiopia’s Tigray