By Gary Raynaldo – DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary General António Guterres Monday called for an “immediate” ceasefire to the conflict in Northeast African nation Sudan that has seen nearly 200 people killed. Rival armed forces were locked in a
(Photo by Atwine Allen / ©Diplomatic Times) Congolese refugees inside the Nyakabande Transit Camp in Kisoro district of Uganda who have fled the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after an outbreak of fighting in March between March 23 (M23 Movement M23) rebels and Armed Forces
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at meeting with NATO (Credit: NATO.int) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES WASHINGTON DC – PENTAGON – U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin apparently initiated a telephone call with Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Friday setting up
UN Photo / United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (file photo). By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned an attack on a school in Bilohorivka, eastern Ukraine, where many people were sheltering from the
By Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times) United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks on situation in Ukraine in front of the Non-Violence bronze “Knotted Gun” sculpture at Visitors Plaza at UN world headquarters in New York April 19, 2022. By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES
(By Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times) United Nations Secretary-General António at UN headquarters in New York. (File) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his call Monday for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Ukraine to
Abdulla Shahid, President of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, briefs the media at UN Headquarters in New York. (Photo: UN Photo/Cia Pak) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – The war in Ukraine has the potential to
Abiy Ahmed Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Credit: twitter.com) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES The year-long civil war in Ethiopia has reached a crisis point as several rebel groups advance toward the Horn of Africa nation’s capital city Addis Ababa
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMTIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK – Armed conflicts have a devastating impact on children. Grave violations against children in armed conflict in 2020 remained “alarmingly high” according to a report by the UN Secretary General published Monday. The
Credit: Gary Raynaldo / ©Diplomatic Times / Ambassador Jerry Matthews Matjila, Security Council President for the month of December 2020 and Permanent Representative of the Republic of South Africa to the United Nations (File) By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES UNITED NATIONS – NEW YORK