Diplomacy

France is recalling its ambassador to Burkina Faso, a day after it announced that its military mission there was to end. The French foreign ministry said Luc Hallade was returning for consultations on the state of relations between Paris and its former West African colony. There have been weeks of …

Far-right Brazilian former president Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil for Florida two days before Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s inauguration on January 1 and stayed at the home of a former Brazilian MMA fighter. He was admitted to hospital last Sunday for an intestinal “adhesion” and was released on Tuesday evening. …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has held talks with his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto during which they discussed food security and the Grain from Ukraine initiative – a humanitarian program to bring Ukrainian grain to countries with severe shortages food. In a tweet, Mr Zelensky said they also spoke about the …

Humanity has become a “weapon of mass extinction” of nature that “we treat like a toilet”, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday at a ceremony in Montreal on the eve of of COP15 on biodiversity. “With our boundless appetite for uncontrolled and unequal economic growth, humanity has become …

US President Joe Biden will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on November 14 in Bali, Indonesia, on the sidelines of the G20 summit, the White House announced on Thursday, at a time of vivid tension between the two superpowers. This will be the first flesh meeting between the two …

A Russian businessman close to the Kremlin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, admitted on Monday his country’s “interference” in the American elections. His remarks come on the eve of an important midterm election in the United States where Moscow has for years been accused of interference. “We interfered, we do and we will …

Madagascar’s president has sacked his foreign minister, Richard Randriamandrato, for voting at the United Nations to condemn Russia’s annexation of four partially occupied regions of Ukraine, Reuters reported, citing two sources in the president’s office. Last Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn what it called Russia’s …

Belarus “would be well advised” not to enter the war in Ukraine, warned the head of French diplomacy Catherine Colonna, citing the possibility of sanctions. “The question will most certainly be on the agenda for the G7 discussions” which meets virtually on Tuesday in an emergency, the day after the …

There has been sparse media coverage in Senegal following a visit to Dakar by Ukraine Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who is embarking on an African tour. The Ukrainian diplomat met Senegal’s Foreign Minister Aissata Tall Sall and they signed several bilateral co-operation deals. Mr Kuleba is on an apparent …

US Embassy in Moscow urged all its nationals to leave Russia immediately as long as opportunities for commercial travel remain limited, deploring the filling of flights and the closing of borders by Russian troops. “All Americans in Russia should leave immediately to avoid being drafted into the military” the embassy …