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...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken hopes that by working on a regionally brokered deal Washington could improve relations with Riyadh and Abu Dhabi...
As West Africa's governments look to further reinforce their strategy with the support of France and the US – whose Antony Blinken became the first Secretary of State to visit Niger on 16-17 March – they are confronted with a regional security picture of increasing complexity...
Kenya's Foreign Minister Alfred Mutua was due to discuss coordinating regional efforts with Antony Blinken the US Secretary of State on the sidelines of a meeting on bilateral trade in Washington DC on 24 April...
This story has been updated to reflect the announcement of a 72-hour ceasefire mediated by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces which came into force at midnight in Khartoum on 24 April...
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The latest attempted ceasefire in Sudan announced by Antony Blinken the United States Secretary of State and publicly agreed by both warring parties – the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – gives foreign mediators three days to open more substantive negotiations about the future of the country's political transition...
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Its Africa strategy paper release last August by Secretary of State Antony Blinken included some new thinking on expanding ties but raised questions about the State Department's capacity for implementation given the under-staffing of many of its missions in Africa...
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With the ground prepared the emphasis that Secretary of State Antony Blinken placed on solving the Rusesabagina issue during a meeting with Kagame in Kigali in August and the distinctly cool reception Kagame received at the December US-Africa Summit in Washington drove home the damage Rusesabagina's incarceration was doing...
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It is also in his view far subordinate to issues raised in the recent visit of United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken which will top Abiy's agenda...
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A week after his meeting with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa when he offered US$330 million in humanitarian aid to the government United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to hard diplomacy stating that armed forces on all sides of the conflict in northern Ethiopia have committed war crimes...
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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...