U.S. Africa Command forces stationed in Djibouti conducted an operational and logistics assessment in Gao, Mali, March 3, 2021 (credit: africom.mil) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES U.S. Africa Command forces stationed in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa conducted an operational and logistics assessment
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 Sudan just got a very sweet $1.2 Billion loan deal courtesy of
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
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Tibor Nagy at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. March 3, 2020 speaks on progress in U.S. – Africa Policy. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES America’s top diplomat
Credit: Wikipedia / Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών / Gebran Gerge Bassil is a Lebanese politician who serves as the president of the Free Patriotic Movement By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States has sanctionded Lebanese political leader Gibran Bassil for alleged corruption. Bassil, the leader
Credit: scmwiki2012.wordpress.com/ The United States seized a multimillion-dollar Iranian fuel shipment in August bound for Venezuela, the largest-ever seizure of its kind. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The United States Thursday announced the filing of a complaint to seek the forfeiture of two shipments of
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
Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper walks out to brief the press after meeting with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune today in Algiers, Algeria Oct. 1, 2020. The two leaders discussed the security situation in North Africa and ways to cooperate in the security sphere. (Photo
U.S. Ambassador Donald Y. Yamamoto and Somalia Minister of Finance Abdirahman Beileh met in Mogadishu Sept. 27, 2020, and signed a bilateral agreement to reduce and restructure debt totaling US$1 billion owed by the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) to three U.S. government agencies. Ambassador
Credit: europe-diplomatic.eu/ Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, President of Belarus DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF The U.S. no longer recognizes Aleksandr Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus, the State Department said in a statement on Wednesday amid the country’s disputed election in August. Longtime incumbent President Lukashenko won 80.23%