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Antony Blinken

Date of Birth: 16 April 1962
Place of Birth: Yonkers, New York


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Mediators proliferate as fighting intensifies and more flee Khartoum

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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National rivalries and policy clashes complicate peace-making efforts

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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Kigali frees 'Hotel Rwanda' hero to assuage Washington

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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How El Sisi lost the cold war over water

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...


Kagame's bargaining chip

Last August United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had raised his concerns with Kagame over the trial having previously designated Rusesabagina who has permanent US residency rights as 'wrongly detained'...


West Africa’s juntas look east

Claims and denialsOn 14 December during talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington President Akufo-Addo infuriated Burkina by claiming it had already agreed terms to hire Wagner fighters who were now deployed by the border with his own country supposedly paid through the award of a mine concession...

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Journalist death prompts criticism

In December US lawmakers tacked on provisions to the State Department's appropriations bill urging secretary of state Antony Blinken to brief them on Kigali's 'abuse of the judicial system' and attempts to 'silence critics' of its government and role in the conflict in Congo-K...


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