United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Abiy in early February urging humanitarian access to Tigray (AC Dispatches US and European officials step up pressure on Addis Ababa over reports of war crimes in Tigray)...

Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken was Biden's National Security Advisor when he was Vice-President under Barack Obama and both men supported the US invasion of Iraq...

Rabat's initial response to Antony Blinken being named Secretary of State was relief as his rival for the job Susan Rice had ruffled Moroccan feathers when she was Barack Obama's UN ambassador – another example of how in Morocco the Sahara trumps everything...