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US Embassy Kinshasa Orders Employees to Shelter in Place This Weekend in the...
Posted: 12:06 pm PT The U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa issued a security message informing U.S. citizens in the Democratic Republic of Congo that U.S. government employees have been instructed to limit...
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Political Violence Against Americans in 2015: Highest in Near East Asia,...
Posted: 1:55 am ET The Political Violence Against Americans publication is produced annually by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s Directorate of Threat Investigations and Analysis (DS/TIA) to...
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@StateDept Orders Evacuation of US Embassy Banjul Family Members From The...
Posted: 5:56 pm PT On Saturday, January 7, the State Department ordered the departure of family members of USG employees assigned to the US Embassy Banjul, in The Gambia. It also authorized the...
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U.S. Consulate General Istanbul: Post On Evacuation Status With a “No...
Posted: 1:49 am ET In October 2016, the State Department updated its Travel Warning for Turkey to announce the mandatory departure of family members of employees assigned to the Consulate General in...
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US Ambassador Presents New President of Somalia with “Make Som Great Again” Hat
Posted: 2:36 am ET On Friday, U.S. Mission to Somalia Ambassador Stephen Schwartz (see D/SecState Blinken Swears in Stephen Schwartz, First U.S.Ambassador to Somalia in 25 Years) had a meeting with...
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“The Secretary” Writes FY18 Budget Love Letter to Foggy Bottom, But What’s...
Posted: 2:21 pm ET Earlier, we posted about Trump’s “skinny budget” which guts the State Department and USAID funding by 28%. (see WH/OMB Releases FY2018 Budget Blueprint – @StateDept/@USAID Hit With...
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US Embassy Kenya’s Local Guards Stage a Demonstration Over “Poor Pay”
Posted: 2:21 am ET Kenya’s local media reports that a couple hundred local guards contracted to guard the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya staged a demonstration on Thursday over “poor pay.” The guards...
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@StateDept Plans to Build a “Somalia Interim Facility” in Mogadishu For...
Posted: 4:25 am ET The State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) is requesting submissions to pre-qualify firms for Design-Build Construction Services for the construction of...
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Confirmations: Todd Haskell (Congo), Tulinabo Mushingi...
Posted: 2:29 am ET On May 18, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nominations of career diplomats Todd Haskell and Tulinabo Salama Mushingi to be the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo and the...
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#TrumpBudget Proposal FY2018: Most Volatile Geographic Bureaus Get the...
Posted: 3:03 am ET Diplomatic Security’s 2015 Political Violence Against Americans publication notes that attacks involving U.S. citizens or interests occurred predominantly in the Near East (NEA),...
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U.S. Embassy Bamako: Gunmen Storm Le Campement Kangaba Tourist Resort in Mali
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View ArticleCareer Diplomat Eric P. Whitaker to be U.S. Ambassador to Niger
Posted: 4:56 am ET [twitter-follow screen_name=’Diplopundit’] On September 2, President Trump announced his intent to nominate career diplomat Erik Whitaker to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Niger....
View ArticleCurrent Visa Sanctions: Cambodia, Guinea, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Plus The...
Posted: 1:38 am ET [twitter-follow screen_name=’Diplopundit’] We previously blogged about visa sanctions in January 2017 for countries who refused to accept their deported nationals (see On...
View Article@StateDept Dedicates New $181M U.S. Embassy Mauritania in the “Place of the...
Posted: 2:58 am ET Follow @Diplopundit According to the State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (State/OBO), the new U.S. Embassy compound in Nouakchott, Mauritania is situated on...
View Article@StateDept Dedicates New $225M U.S. Embassy in N’Djamena, Chad
Posted: 3:25 am ET Follow @Diplopundit On October 16, the State Department announced that “In an important symbol of our enduring partnership with the people of the Republic of Chad, U.S. Ambassador...
View ArticleAvoidable Mess: U.S. to Help Chad After “Important Partner” Withdraws Troops...
Posted: 3:33 am ET Follow @Diplopundit On September 24, President Trump announced new security measures that establish minimum requirements for international cooperation to support U.S. visa and...
View ArticleTillerson Delivers to @StateDept’s Africa Bureau Its “Most Significant...
Posted: 12:25 am ET Follow @Diplopundit All Foreign Service posts in Africa receive post hardship differential, that is, an allowance meant to provide “additional compensation of up to 35 percent...
View ArticleU.S.Embassy Bamako: Army Green Beret Logan J. Melgar’s Death in Mali Under...
Posted: 12:33 am ET Follow @Diplopundit Media reports say that Army Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar was found dead in his room in embassy housing in Bamako, Mali on June 4, 2017 and that two members of...
View ArticleU.S. Mission Somalia on Ordered Departure of “Non-Essential” U.S. Citizen...
Posted: 12:26 am ET Updated: 1:09 pm ET Follow @Diplopundit We understand that the State Department did not/did not put US Mission Somalia on ordered departure. This explains the absence of a new...
View ArticleU/S Shannon Swears-In New U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote
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