Abuja's foreign minister Geoffrey Onyeama has good relations with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and many of the country's oil and gas barons see opportunities in sanctions against Russia...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged action on 25 February but did not name the individuals targeted...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also spoke in the week-ending 15 January with Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AC Vol 62 No 24 No jaw jaw – just war war)...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared that the release of Hamdok was a 'first step' towards agreement but other diplomats were less cautious in their support...

Antony Blinken the US Secretary of State visited Nairobi in mid-November after talks in Addis Ababa with Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen...

Boosting democracies and resolving conflicts were being pushed as the main themes of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's Africa tour when he spoke in Nairobi on 17 November...

The US International Development Finance Corporation chaired by Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to freeze a $500m loan to the Safaricom consortium to help with acquisition and development costs of the telecommunications licence awarded in June one of the Abiy government's planned flagship privatisations (AC Dispatches 15/9/21 Safaricom and Vodafone get EU's green light for mammoth telecoms investment with Addis Ababa)...