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...

'No special favours' for individual countries but instead 'broad engagement' with Africa was the message from Robert Godec the United States African Affairs Acting Assistant Secretary ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken's virtual trip to Kenya and Nigeria (AC Dispatches Washington's front bench on Africa takes shape)...

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been among the most vocal critics of Ethiopian premier Abiy Ahmed's handling of the ongoing civil war in Tigray (AC Vol 62 No 7 Abiy gives first ground)...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has described essential first steps to a political solution as: 'cessation of hostilities the immediate withdrawal of Eritrean forces and an end to the Ethiopian government's deployment of Amhara regional forces in Tigray'...

The Biden administration made its first formal political contact with Egypt on 23 February with a telephone call from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry...