© 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
(credit: au.int) Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat (left) and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Africa has so far registered more than 2,200,000 cases of COVID-19 and
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / Ambassador Jerry Matthews Matjila, Security Council President for the month of December 2020 and Permanent Representative of the Republic of South Africa to the United Nations (File) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK
(credit: twitter.com/alsisiofficial) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020 met with the President of South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF REPORT Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi met with the President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit on Saturday to
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 government of Ethiopia on Saturday declared victory in its latest military operation in the capital of the defiant Tigray region. Ethiopian
(Credit: Wikipedia /Mark Neyman / GPO / Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed refused to engage in dialogue with the leaders of the rebellious Tigray region during a meeting with three African Union special envoys.
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Tibor Nagy at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. March 3, 2020 speaks on progress in U.S. – Africa Policy. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES America’s top diplomat
© UNHCR/Hazim Elhag / Ethiopian refugees fleeing clashes in the country’s northern Tigray region, rest and cook meals near UNHCR’s Hamdayet reception centre after crossing into Sudan. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR)
(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
Credit: Wikipedia Commons / Flag of Federal Republic of Ethiopia By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES At least 54 people from the Amhara ethnic group in Ethiopia were killed in an attack late on Sunday by suspected members of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA)