Vol 64 No 24 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Having requested a meeting the South Sudanese UN mission not expecting to see anyone as senior as President Joe Biden thought Kiir might get to meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
Rejecting the CDC's complaints the Embassy recalled US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's threat to block visas for those seen to be undermining democracy in Liberia (AC Vol 64 No 21 Weah and Boakai brace for second round)...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Cairo on 15 October talking up its role in the Gaza conflict...
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reckoned with that possibility when on 27 September he threatened visa restrictions for those 'believed to be…undermining democracy in Liberia...
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United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken had warned that officials suspected of rigging or manipulating the polls or of election violence would face travel bans...
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In late September United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that Washington would impose travel bans on those believed to be responsible for 'undermining democracy in Liberia' including manipulation or rigging of the electoral process the use of violence to prevent people from campaigning and voting and interference with media coverage...
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Vol 64 No 18 |
- SIERRA LEONE
In a statement last week US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the visa restrictions target 'those believed to be responsible for or complicit in undermining democracy in Sierra Leone including through the manipulation or rigging of the electoral process' and without naming names were aimed at 'specific individuals and not directed at the Sierra Leonean people'...
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Vol 64 No 16 |
- KENYA
- HAITI
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called President William Ruto on 29 July with discussions reported to cover Kenya's deployments to Congo-Kinshasa and Haiti...
Vol 64 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
On 9 June a bipartisan group of US lawmakers – including Republican senator Jim Risch of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Democrat representative Gregory Meeks and Republican representative Michael McCaul both of the House Foreign Affairs Committee – wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking to move November's scheduled annual meeting of AGOA member countries away from South Africa...
That was evident in a phone call by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to General Abdel Fattah al Burhan a few hours before the signing of the latest agreement...
Little discussed are the tensions within the State Department between the Bureau of African Affairs and the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs with the latter given more importance by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the senior Department leadership...