Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations (credit: UN Photo) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The United States strongly condemned the latest deadly attack against peacekeepers serving with the UN
© UNHCR/Chris Melzer Eritrean children play in the Adi Harush refugee camp in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The UN has launched a probe into alleged serious abuses and rights violations in Ethiopia’s Tigray
Les Forces Armées Maliennes (FAMa) sont responsables de la défense de l’intégrité territoriale et la souveraineté du Mali. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES At least 30 Malian soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack this week in the northern region of the west African
(credit: elliott.gwu.edu) Mauritanian diplomat El-Ghassim Wane has been named the new UN envoy to Mali By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday announced the appointment of El-Ghassim Wane of Mauritania as his new Special
UN MINUSMA peacekeepers (Blue Hats) in Mali (credit: UN Photo) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – At least 20 UN peacekeepers were injured in an attack on their base in central Mali early Wednesday, a UN spokesman confirmed. “This
MINUJUSTH/Leonora Baumann / Fire residues and debris at a protest site in Port-au-Prince in July 2018. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Increasing political tensions in Haiti coupled with insecurity and structural inequalities could result in protests followed
(Credit: EU) EU High Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell wants to strengthen the like-mindedness and close alignment between Norway’s priorities and the EU’s foreign policy and defence objectives. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European
(credit: wikipedia) Former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power to head the U.S. Agency for International Development By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES President-elect Joe Biden has tapped former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power to head the U.S. Agency for International Development. The in-coming Biden administration also elevated
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The Security Council has extended the mandate of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONSCO) for another year, maintaining the same level of troops. By
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