The secretary of state has postponed diplomatic travel during the coronavirus pandemic, which experts say is a challenge at a moment of flux in the world.
Joy Kaiser, Who Saw a Medical Need in South Africa, Dies at 90
With her husband, she founded an organization devoted to increasing the number of Black medical professionals. She died of Covid-19.
Joy Kaiser was the wife of an American diplomat in South Africa during apartheid and after her husband retired, the couple could not forget the injustice of apartheid. So they founded a group to help build the medical profession among Blacks there.Credit.via Kaiser family
Feb. 22, 2021
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Because someone brutally beat their gardener, Joy and Herbert Kaiser discovered a calling, one that would bolster the ranks of Black doctors and other medical professionals in South Africa at a pivotal time.
Italian Ambassador Among Three Killed in Attack on U.N. Convoy in Congo
The attack, on a World Food Program convoy headed to a school in North Kivu Province, left the ambassador, Luca Attanasio, an Italian embassy official and a driver dead.
United Nations peacekeepers and ambulances could be seen at the location where Ambassador Luca Attanasio of Italy was fatally attacked in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Credit.Guerchom Ndebo/Getty Images
Feb. 22, 2021
For Luca Attanasio, Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, humanitarian work was at the core of his mission. The 43-year-old had moved with his wife to the capital, Kinshasa, in 2017, where their family grew to include three young daughters. He rose to the rank of ambassador in 2019, the pinnacle of his diplomatic career.
The administration’s measured response to a rocket attack in Erbil sharply contrasts with a Trump-era campaign against Iran that, more often than not, caught Iraq in the crossfire.
In a Dangerous Game of Cat and Mouse, Iran Eyes New Targets in Africa
Fifteen people arrested in Ethiopia were part of what American and Israeli officials said was a foiled Iranian plot against diplomats from the United Arab Emirates.
The downtown business district in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, where 15 people were recently arrested in what Ethiopia said was a plot against the Emirati Embassy.Credit.Mulugeta Ayene for The New York Times
Published Feb. 15, 2021Updated Feb. 22, 2021
NAIROBI, Kenya When Ethiopia’s intelligence agency recently uncovered a cell of 15 people it said were casing the embassy of the United Arab Emirates, along with a cache of weapons and explosives, it claimed to have foiled a major attack with the potential to sow havoc in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.