U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley, commander, U.S. Africa Command (left) meets with Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Mogadishu during visit to Somalia June 13-14, 2023. (Credit: africom.mil) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES Marine Corps Gen. Michael Langley, Commander of U.S. Africa
Somali and Kenyan troops celebrate al-Shabaab’s retreat from Kismayo Airport, 2012. (Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. and the United Kingdom are leading efforts to increase military assistance for Horn of Africa nation Somalia to Battle
Somali Minister of Defense Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur Jama at ceremony Jan. 8, 2023 during which the U.S. presented the Somalia National Army with $9 million in military aid. (Credit: US Embassy in Somalia) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. is providing $9
U.S. Soldiers assigned to the East Africa Response Force (EARF), deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, prepare to depart for Libreville, Gabon, at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Jan. 2, 2019. (Credit: U.S. Army) By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON
Source: Wikipedia Commons / American drones such as the remotely piloted General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, have been used primarily by the United States Air Force for counter-terror airstrikes in the Horn-of-African nation Somalia. By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES A U.S. airstrike over the weekend
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General António Guterres “strongly” condemned a “terrorist” attack on the Hayat hotel in Mogadishu Friday that left at least 21 persons dead. Somalian authorities said Islamist militants sieged the upscale hotel in Somalia’s
Source: Wikipedia Commons / American drones such as the remotely piloted General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, have been used primarily by the United States Air Force for counter-terror airstrikes in the Horn-of-African nation Somalia. By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Africa Command
(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,
U.S. Army soldiers and Marines conduct sling load operations on Chabelley Air Field, Djibouti, July 14, 2008. (Credit: defense.gov) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – PENTAGON – President Biden on Monday authorized the Department of Defense to re-deploy U.S. troops
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