Ambassador Tarek Ladeb, Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the United Nations and President of the UN Security Council for the month of January 2021. (united nations youtube) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – TUNISIA officially took over the rotating
INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), frontline officers targeted firearms smuggling hotspots at airports, seaports, and land borders in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Niger. (credit: interpol.int) DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF A seven-day operation coordinated jointly by INTERPOL and the
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020. (U.S. Embassy Khartoum photo by Alsanosi Ali) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. has officially removed Sudan from its list of state sponsors
Embassy of Saudi Arabia, The Hague Netherlands (Wikipedia Commons) DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The Saudi Arabian Embassy in The Hague Netherlands was sprayed by a fusillade of gunshots in the early hours of Thursday morning. No one was injured in the incident in which at
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The French Air Force dispatched two Dassault Mirage 2000 fighter jets to the West Africa Sahel in an airstrike that reportedly killed at least 50 jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda in Mali, the French government said. Mirage fighter jets
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020. (U.S. Embassy Khartoum photo by Alsanosi Ali) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The U.S. Trump administration has removed Sudan from a terrorism blacklist after the
United Nations Security Council at UN world headquarters in New York. The Security Council held an open debate titled “Addressing the Issue of Linkages between Terrorism and Organised Crime” August 6, 2020. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The
Credit: issafrica.org / The crisis-stricken Sahel currently epitomises the myriad of challenges facing the African continent By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The crisis in the Sahel region of west Africa is worsening amid violent extremism, drought, localised conflict over natural resources, transnational organised crime,
Credit: UN Photo/Cia Pak / Mahamadou Issoufou, President of the Republic of the Niger, addresses the general debate of the 74th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York) 24 OCT 2019 / BY AÏSSA IBRAHIM -With its key geo-strategic position, Niger can use its term
Credit: /unowas.unmissions.org/ Ninth Meeting of the Steering Committee of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS), 21 October 2019 in Dakar. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of