The pressure ratcheted up on 29 June when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Khalifa Haftar's son Saddam Haftar in Washington DC to discuss plans to unify Libya's military economic and political bodies...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the sanctions against Mafwele were based on ‘credible information that he was involved in gross violations of human rights' (Dispatches 25/5/26 Washington's travel ban on police chief accused of assaulting activists may unleash tougher sanctions)...

Failure seemed inevitable: in March the New York Times leaked a memo drafted for US Secretary of State Marco Rubio which stated: ‘We will only secure our priorities by demonstrating willingness to publicly take support away from Zambia on a massive scale...

The Polisario Front Terrorist Designation Act requires Secretary of State Marco Rubio to designate the Polisario Front as a terrorist organisation if he confirms that Polisario is cooperating with Iranian groups already listed in the US as terrorist...

We hear little progress was made at meetings in Washington between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Congolese and Rwandan delegations on 17-18 March to review the US-brokered peace accord...

He is to coordinate US policy across Africa's 54 states focusing on security and trade ties and report to Secretary of State Marco Rubio with whom he has worked in the past...

Until US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio pushed for a UN Security Council resolution to back the new mission US cuts to the UN peacekeeping budget looked set to shut down all UN peace support operations around the world...

Some say the US administration is prepared to pay this price because of the interests of US National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio whose presidential ambitions are rooted in his political base of Florida...