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...

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)...

Rwanda's riskUnited States Secretary of State Antony Blinken referred to the UN findings when he visited Kinshasa a few days after they were leaked in August...

INTERVIEW WITH US AMBASSADOR TO THE UN LINDA THOMAS-GREENFIELD AC: The United States' latest statement on its Africa strategy was launched when you and Secretary of State Antony Blinken were touring Africa...