John Forbes Kerry

Visits from United States Secretary of State John Kerry and a team of international envoys in quick succession all bore the same message: Kabila must respect the constitution by stepping down at the end of his second term in December 2016...

US Secretary of State John Kerry asked in person for security cooperation maintaining a fixed stare as he put a positive spin on his face-to-face meeting with an incapacitated President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (see Feature Adrift in dangerous waters)...

US Secretary of State John Kerry helped to tip the balance...

An illustrative but unconfirmed story has it that United States Secretary of State John Kerry gave Hassan Sheikh a dressing down when they met at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa on 3 May saying he should improve or resign...

Some view the arrests as a snub by the Tigrayan establishment – which still maintains a tight grip on Ethiopia's security apparatus – to United States Secretary of State John Kerry who arrived in the capital less than a week later; it could also have been an attempt to embarrass Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn...

On his arrival in Addis Ababa on 30 April the United States Secretary of State John Kerry added his weight to calls for a regional force to stop the fighting but did not offer specific military assistance...

Dos Santos's French sojourn also marks an improvement in relations with the West: John Kerry the US Secretary of State is due in Luanda this week and after some false steps Britain is trying to bring Dos Santos to London for a state visit this year...

Rwanda's and M23's worries increased on 23 July when US Secretary of State John Kerry's Sspokesperson called on Kigali to end its support for M23 ignoring Rwanda's persistent blanket denials...

Wolf echoed this call in a 24 June letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry...

French President François Hollande European Union President José Manuel Barroso and China’s Vice-Premier Wang Yang followed on but United States Secretary of State John Kerry and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon declined to make their speeches perhaps to avoid the indignity of talking to a near empty room...