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The latest attempted ceasefire in Sudan announced by Antony Blinken the United States Secretary of State and publicly agreed by both warring parties – the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – gives foreign mediators three days to open more substantive negotiations about the future of the country's political transition...
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Its Africa strategy paper release last August by Secretary of State Antony Blinken included some new thinking on expanding ties but raised questions about the State Department's capacity for implementation given the under-staffing of many of its missions in Africa...
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With the ground prepared the emphasis that Secretary of State Antony Blinken placed on solving the Rusesabagina issue during a meeting with Kagame in Kigali in August and the distinctly cool reception Kagame received at the December US-Africa Summit in Washington drove home the damage Rusesabagina's incarceration was doing...
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It is also in his view far subordinate to issues raised in the recent visit of United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken which will top Abiy's agenda...
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A week after his meeting with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa when he offered US$330 million in humanitarian aid to the government United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to hard diplomacy stating that armed forces on all sides of the conflict in northern Ethiopia have committed war crimes...
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At the US African leaders' summit in Washington DC in December Egypt's previously bellicose President Abdel Fattah el Sisi plaintively appealed for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to intervene in the negotiations...
Last August United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had raised his concerns with Kagame over the trial having previously designated Rusesabagina who has permanent US residency rights as 'wrongly detained'...
Claims and denialsOn 14 December during talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington President Akufo-Addo infuriated Burkina by claiming it had already agreed terms to hire Wagner fighters who were now deployed by the border with his own country supposedly paid through the award of a mine concession...
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In December US lawmakers tacked on provisions to the State Department's appropriations bill urging secretary of state Antony Blinken to brief them on Kigali's 'abuse of the judicial system' and attempts to 'silence critics' of its government and role in the conflict in Congo-K...
Equally President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken are aware of how counterproductive public criticism of South Africa's stance could prove amid the heightened geopolitical rivalries (AC Vol 63 No 11 Diplomacy on ice)...
