Boosting democracies and resolving conflicts were being pushed as the main themes of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's Africa tour when he spoke in Nairobi on 17 November...

The US International Development Finance Corporation chaired by Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to freeze a $500m loan to the Safaricom consortium to help with acquisition and development costs of the telecommunications licence awarded in June one of the Abiy government's planned flagship privatisations (AC Dispatches 15/9/21 Safaricom and Vodafone get EU's green light for mammoth telecoms investment with Addis Ababa)...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reassured Nairobi that the talks will be concluded but there can be no progress until a lengthy review of the Trump administration's trade policy agenda is finished...

Statements after a telephone meeting with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke of improving the business environment, political freedoms, and Covid-19...

Ugandan security forces were responsible for the deaths and injuries of dozens of innocent bystanders and opposition supporters ' Antony Blinken said in a statement...

The following day President Buhari flanked by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama told United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Washington should consider moving its Africa Command (Africom) from Stuttgart Germany to Africa 'closer to the theatre of operations'...

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on 13 April the US was 'deeply disappointed' and he felt compelled to 're-evaluate [our] bilateral relations with the Federal Government of Somalia' threatening sanctions against certain officials a serious threat when so many Somalis have US citizenship and family and property there...