Not least among the consequences of this was the casting of a pall over the decision by the then US Secretary of State John Kerry to recognise Taban Deng Gai's July 2016 coup against his boss Riek (AC Vol 57 No 17 Pax Salvatica)...

Four VPsIGAD's previous talks were based on power-sharing with SPLA-IO leader Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon as Vice-President – a structure endorsed by the Obama administration's Secretary of State John Kerry in early 2014 (AC Vol 55 No 10 The end of the beginning)...

John Kerry the ex-United States Secretary of State was left red-faced after his assessment on the day after the polls closed in the 8 August general elections...

'I think that the observers have not helped Kenyans resolve this dispute they have confounded it by giving basically an approval to a fairly flawed process […] and therefore I am very disappointed with John Kerry and the other observers ' Odinga said...

After the Supreme Court ruling some election observers such as the United States' John Kerry explained they had not endorsed the arithmetical tabulation of results but just the observed processes of voting and logistical arrangements...

EU observers put poll in perspective Former United States Secretary of State John Kerry who led the Carter Center's election observer mission has apologised for initially strongly urging acceptance of the 8 August presidential poll results now voided by the Supreme Court...

In the last months of the Obama administration Secretary of State John Kerry and the Africom Commander General Thomas D...

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry who heads the Carter Center observer mission praised the system of cross-checking the physical votes against the electronic tallies...

The United States had been expected to send Vice President Joe Biden or Secretary of State John Kerry to the November conference to underline the Obama administration's support for the one country to host an Arab Spring revolution and emerge with a functioning democracy...

That much was clear when United States Secretary of State John Kerry visited the region this week and offered new aid for Juba calling for both sides to respect last August's peace deal but raising no concern about Riek's sacking (AC Vol 57 No 16 Riek rival boosts Salva)...