Diplomacy Archive

Three West African countries, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, run by military juntas will be launching new biometric passports as part of their withdrawal from the wider regional bloc Ecowas. The three countries whose military leaders took over power in a series of

The United States supports creating two permanent United Nations Security Council seats for African states and one seat to be rotated among small island developing states, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced on Thursday. The move comes as the

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said Pretoria would continue to press ahead with its genocide case against Israel’s atrocities in Gaza and would submit more evidence to the World Court next month. South Africa filed the case in December alleging that

Alexei Navalny was about to be freed in a prisoner swap when he died, according to his ally Maria Pevchikh. She said the Russian opposition leader was going to be exchanged for Vadim Krasikov, a Russian hitman who is serving a

More than 20 heads of state and government from over 100 nations are set to convene in southern Türkiye for the 3rd Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) next month, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Sunday. The forum will be held under the

The World Bank is working to slash how long it takes to get financing projects off the ground as part of a push to speed up and scale up the 79-year-old development lender, its president told Agence France-Presse (AFP) Wednesday. It

The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss heightened tensions in the Red Sea following a series of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. UN Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari warned that a military escalation would have adverse political

Jordan Foreign Minister Ayman Hussein Safadi has accused Israel of aiming to cleanse Gaza of its people through an “indiscriminate and brutal offensive” in response to the October 7 Hamas attack. Speaking at the Doha Forum held in the Qatari capital