Diplomacy - Page 2
Algeria snubs France in sahel counterterrorism initiative
Paris wants to organize a conference of heads of state of a group of Sahel countries that have joined forces to fight against terrorist...
Clinton: Obama Foreign Policy Yielding Dividends
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration's foreign policy strategy of rebuilding alliances and applying so-called soft power is beginning to yield...
Western Sahara: Morocco to be sent to court by injured Spanish activists
To the utter dismay of the Spanish Government eleven Spanish activists were arrested Saturday in El-Aaiún, the capital of Western Sahara, by the Moroccan...
Zimbabwe: Purpose of Gaddafi visit unclear
Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi's son, Lieutenant-Colonel Engineer Saadi Muammar al-Gaddafi and his entourage were on Thursday detained at Harare International Airport for two hours...
Gabon: Ali Bongo signals the end of France-Afrique
Confirming his desire to distance himself from France, Gabonese president Ali Bongo looks determined to break away from his father's legacy. After festivities marking...
Zimbabwe: Diplomatic row begins after Mugabe’s funeral comments
Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi Tuesday summoned three Western ambassadors to his office and demanded an
explanation of their walk out on President Mugabe...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s undiplomatic speech angers officials
A damaging diplomatic row was brewing in Harare Monday with western
diplomats indicating that they would leave Zimbabwe after President
Mugabe told them to ‘go to...
Libya tears United States and United Kingdom apart
A U.S. Senate hearing over the release of the Libyan spy, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi scheduled for Thursday was postponed after "key witnesses" failed to...
Uganda head lambasts Commonwealth and Commends China
Uganda's president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said the western world has squandered cultural links with Africa and mismanaged it by making lectures thereby losing...
Egypt: Mubarak’s “terminal” cancer sparks fears
An insistent rumour over President Hosni Mubarak’s health has been assessed by Western intelligence sources. Israel and its American ally may be losing sleep...
Seychelles and the USA sign Piracy Agreement
The government of Seychelles has signed a Transfer of Suspected Pirates Agreement with the United States of America at the Ministrty of Foreign Affairs,...
Ethiopia: President Song ends a 2 days visit to Addis Ababa
On Friday, 9 July, 2010, Judge Sang-Hyun Song, President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), ended a two day visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,...
Libya pledges strong ties with Sudan as border closes
Sudan's decision to close its borders with Libya took effect on Thursday. Khartoum is seeking the expulsion of rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim, who heads...
Ethiopia: African ambassador’s spouses charity bazaar, to donate aids in support of the needy in Addis Ababa
As a follow up of the fund raising bazaar organised in March 2010 by the African Ambassadors' Spouses Group in Addis Ababa (AASG), at...
Libya: Gaddafi coerces Europe
A Swiss businessman Max Göldi who had been held in a Libyan jail since July 2008, following the arrest of Hannibal, son of Muammar...
Joint statement by High Representative Catherine Ashton and Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström on the release of Max Göldi
High Representative/Vice President Catherine Ashton and Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmström issued the following statement today on the release of Max Göldi.
"We welcome the...
Sudan: U.S pressures Sudan in diplomat’s murderers’ escape
The United States has demanded the Sudanese government find and put to death four Sudanese who killed an American diplomat and his driver in...
Are Obama’s hands tied on Iran?
In a move that will do little for US-Brazilian relations but much for our understanding of the workings of the Obama administration, President Lula...
Morocco-Algeria: Fighting for the re-opening of borders
Efforts by both Algerian and Moroccan citizens towards the reopening of their common land border, closed since 1994, have intensified. By virtue of artistic...
Ceuta and Melilla revive Spanish-Moroccan dispute
Considered as "fragments of Europe on north Africa's Mediterranean coast",
are the cities of Ceuta and Melilla Spanish or Moroccan? Madrid and Rabat have revived...
El Baredei: To dismiss Iranian nuclear agreement would be ‘a dead end street’
Mohamed El Baradei former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency today, in Cameroon, described the announcement by Iran that it will send...
Ethiopia rejects U.S. claims as Ambassador assumes office
After months of strong statements between Addis Ababa and Washington, over Ethiopia’s decision to jam Voice of America’s Amharic service, a new U.S Ambassador...
Chinese Ambassador to Zambia Holds Birthday Party for Zambia’s Founding President Kaunda
On April 28th, Chinese Ambassadorto Zambia Li Qiangmin held at the Ambassador's residence a birthday party for Kenneth David Kaunda, founding President of Zambia,...
Africa: AU and U.S agree to cooperate on world issues
High-level bilateral talks between the African Union and the United States on fighting hunger, climate change, and boosting peacekeeping operations has ended with agreements...
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits Uganda
Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Friday night arrived in Uganda for a
two day state visit.
He arrived in Uganda at around 7.30 pm. He was welcomed...
Zimbabwe: Ahmadinejad snubs Mugabe’s security
Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's security details on Friday took
over all security arrangements after they protested that Zimbabwean
spies are armateurs.
Ahmadinejad has close to 50 security...
Zimbabwe-Iran: Uranium deals against debts?
Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today vowed to stand side by side with Zimbabwean leader in defence of the country against the “arrogant,
evil minded super...
African Union-United States talks opens in U.S. capital
The first U.S.–African Union High Level Bilateral Meetings opened at the United States Department of State April 21 with the goal of broadening the...
Cameroon: Chinese Ambassador Assures Stronger Ties
H.E. Xue Jinwei, paid a maiden visit to the Yaounde Gynaeco-Obstetric and Paediatric Hospital yesterday.
It was an exceptional day at the Yaounde Gynaeco-Obstetric and...
Nigeria’s impact reaches “Beyond its Borders”
A top U.S. State Department official says Nigeria is important to stability and progress worldwide as well in Africa, and he emphasized the closeness...