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U.S. Gives $54m To Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad For Humanitarian Assistance - The Premium Times
he U.S. has released $54 million in addition to humanitarian assistance to Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and other countries devastated by Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa violence. U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Thomas Shannon, announced this at a symposium tagged ‘Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects for Advancing Durable Peace”, organized by the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington, D.C.
IPOB: ‘Nigeria Must Use Dialogue Not Military Option’ – US - Nigerian Monitor
The Federal Government has been implored by the United States to look beyond military option in resolving internal politics. The United States Institute for Peace, USIP, made the call in Washington DC when the agency convened a gathering of US officials, diplomats and Nigerian leaders. The event looked at “Peace in Nigeria: How to build it, and America’s role” and possible options beyond military operations were explored.
Khawaja Asif to meet Tillerson to defuse tensions between Pak, US - ANI
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif will meet U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington D.C. on Wednesday to resume bilateral talks and to discuss ways to remove tensions that cropped up after United States President Donald Trump's August 21 speech.
Khawaja Asif to meet Tillerson for more talks next week - The Dawn
Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif is likely to meet US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington on Wednesday for resuming bilateral talks initiated in New York last week. The US and Pakistan had their first high-level meeting after President Donald Trump’s Aug 21 policy speech in New York last week, when Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi met US Vice President Mike Pence.
USIP Speaks To American Communities On Building Peace - World Affairs Council
This fall, local World Affairs Councils will host USIP experts for a series of activities in Tennessee, Florida and Missouri. In the inaugural event, USIP President Nancy Lindborg will join the Tennessee World Affairs Council in Nashville for a public, town hall-style forum at Belmont University, as well as other discussions at the Nashville Rotary Club and at local high schools.
Military operation not an option in resolving Nigeria’s conflicts - US - Pulse
Urging Nigeria to look beyond a military option in resolving internal conflicts, the appeal from the United States Institute of Peace, is coming following the military approach in combating Nnamdi Kanu led IPOB in the South Eastern region of Nigeria.
US advocates for dialogue in resolving Nigeria’s conflicts - NAIJ
The United States has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to explore the option of dialogue when resolving internal crisis in Nigeria. The advice was given on Thursday, September 28, in Washington DC when the US institute of peace (USIP) convened a conference titled - Peace in Nigeria: How to build it, and America’s role.
Nigeria: Citizen’s Diplomacy and American Agendas, By Jibrin Ibrahim - The Osun Defender
Last Wednesday, the House of Representative’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, jointly led by Congressmen Randy Hultgren and James McGovern held a public hearing in Washington DC on Nigeria. The framing of the topic was a bit surprising.
Violent crime in Mexico is at a 20-year high. This is why Mexico’s political parties don’t fix it. - Washington Post
Mexico has been in the news lately for its devastating earthquakes — and for the number of people organizing donations and helping with rescue operations, independent of a slow-to-react government. But there’s another disaster ravaging the country: Violent crime has reached a 20-year high.
Decolonisation process beyond colonial wigs - The Herald
ON Sunday September 17, 2017 exactly four days before President Mugabe addressed the 72nd United Nations General Assembly and to the delight of the African world, put US-EU imperialism on notice once again that African Revolutionary statesmanship is alive and well in Zimbabwe, our suffering and scattered masses had a chance to peruse the latest article by the Washington Post African Bureau Chief Mr Kevin Sieff titled “Why Are The Continent’s Most Prominent Legal Minds Wearing The Trappings of the Colonisers”?