U.S. Army Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, commander of U.S. Africa Command, meets with troops assigned to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, Nov. 3, 2019, on Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. (Photo: Senior Airman Codie Trimble/ Air Force) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON
Al-Shabaab Emblem (Wikipedia Commons) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – Ranking Republican member of the Senate Armed Armed Services Committee Sen. Jim Inhofe Tuesday called on the Pentagon to consider re-deploying U.S. troops to Somalia to counter the sharp rise in extremist
Peacekeepers with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) are greeted by children. (Photo: MINUSMA/Marco Dormino) By Gary Raynaldo UNITED NATIONS UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – France’s withdrawal of troops in Mali will leave UN peacekeepers and civilians in danger
Brigadier Alexandre Martin , of the 54th artillery regiment, was killed in combat in Mali Jan. 22, 2022 (Source: ministère des armées françaises) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES A French soldier was killed Saturday in a mortar attack on the Operation Barkhane
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES’ UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The Security Council on Wednesday renewed the mandate of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) until 30 June 2022. Unanimously adopting resolution 2584 (2021) under Chapter VII of the Charter
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON – PENTAGON – French President Emmanuel Macron caused an uproar after he warned last week that France will pull its troops out of Mali if it embraces radical Islamism following the second coup in nine months. France has
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON – PENTAGON – President Biden has decided to draw down the remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan and finally end the U.S. war there after 20 years. All U.S. soldiers are set to depart before September 11. Now,
United States Department of State seal By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States strongly condemned “the horrific terrorist attacks” in the Sahel Africa nation Niger, which killed 137 civilians on Sunday. The killings represent Niger’s worst civilian massacre in recent memory, surpassing
Le président de la République de Côte d’Ivoire Alassane Ouattara est arrivé ce lundi Dec. 28, 2020 en fin de matinée à Ouagadougou, pour prendre part à la cérémonie d’investiture de President Roch Marc Christian Kabore (credit: twitter.com/presidencebf) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Ten African
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The UK Government has dispatched a large-scale British peacekeeping deployment to Eastern Mali, deploying 300 troops to help booster the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the African Sahel. The UK government announced Thursday that once fully established, the Task Force