Credit: ec.europa.eu/ Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES “I do not know what it is to be black,” Ursula von der Leyen, a German, and president of the European Commission stated. The
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefs reporters at Department of State headquarters in Washington D.C. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday that a historic United Nations Human Rights Council
Credit / UN News/Daniel Dickinson / George Floyd, an African American, was killed after being restrained by police in the United States. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN Human Rights Commission will launch a report to address
Source: https://twitter.com/JZarif/ Iran Foreign Minister took to Twitter to accuse to U.S. of being racist amid the killing of a black man by a white police officer in Minnesota that has spawned angry protests across American over racial injustice. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES
Credit: unhumanrights.orgtwitter.com / Protests rage across America after the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK –
WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi, Lagos State University Racism against Nigerians – and other Africans – is not new in China. Africa-China history is marked by solidarity, but also dented by old and new racism. Nothing at this moment suggests that the
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres File photo By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General António Guterres Friday called for concerted global action to quash the “tsunami” of hate speech that
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Tibor Nagy speaks on the Trump Administration’s Africa Policy at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. March 3, 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. top
Source: Wikipedia Commons / The southern end of Baohan Straight Street is the heart of the African area known as “Little Africa” in Dengfeng Subdistrict, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES CHINA. For many Africans seeking