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United States of America

Antony Blinken

Date of Birth: 16 April 1962
Place of Birth: Yonkers, New York


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Focused on the crises

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 costs of Abiy's all-out war

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)...


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Regional summit due to meet Thursday on post-coup crisis

The Economic Community of West African states (Ecowas) has been joined by the African Union UN Secretary General António Guterres United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Ministry in condemning the coup and calling for Condé's release...

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Promises, promises

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...


Clearing up after the bulldozer

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


Cracks in the ruling party

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 northern nexus

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'...


Edging Farmajo towards the exit

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...


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