President of the Ivory Coast Alassane Ouattara (Wikipedia) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES French President Emmanuel Macron and Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara met in Paris Wednesday. The two leaders engaged in discussions at the Élysée Palace that reportedly included the recent coup
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
Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations and President of Security Council for the month of September 2022 at UN world headquarters in New York. (Photo Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK
(Credit: MINUSMA/Blagoje Grujic) UN peacekeepers on patrol in Kidal, Mali. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Mali remains locked in a dangerous, “endless cycle of instability” amid a military coup, delay of return to civilian rule, on-going extremist attacks,
United Nations peacekeepers on patrol in the Eastern Sector of Mali. (Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Mali has descended into a dangerous, “endless cycle of instability” amid a military coup, on-going extremist
By Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times) Mexico Permanent Representative, Juan Ramón de la Fuente (right podium) and (left) France Permanent Representative, Ambassador de Rivière, during press briefing outside the United Nations Security Council chambers at UN world headquarters on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine April
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
Cuba’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Peñalver DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF Cuban First Deputy Foreign Minister Gerardo Peñalver is in Paris on a working visit to France for bilateral political consultations with Francois Delattre, general secretary of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. “Today, the
France 24 French state-owned international news television network based in Paris. (Source: Wikipedia) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES France “deplores” a move by Mali’s military junta to suspend broadcasts by French international news outlets RFI and France 24. Mali announced it would ban the French foreign news broadcasts
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The European Commission adopted further targeted sanctions Wednesday against 160 Russians including 14 “oligarchs” and prominent business people. The new measures impose restrictive measures on 160 individuals concerning Russia’s actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine. The EU also