Que des jeunes manifestent et s'indignent, c'est normal et c'est une bonne chose. Ce qui est plus problématique c'est qu'il n’y avait aucune place pour le dialogue, je le regrette.
@MarthaKarua These all politicians we are certain of their track record in kenya .
Martha: we know what she did when she was in power during post election
Matiagi : river yala,
Justin: very incompete
Met late into the night with Syrian Foreign Minister @AsaadHShaibani .
In the hours when capitals grow quiet, the real work of statecraft continues. He is tireless, clear-eyed, and serious about lowering the temperature in a region that has little margin for miscalculation.
Diplomacy is not theater. It is the patient alignment of interests before events turn against us. Grateful for the candor of the exchange, and for a counterpart who understands that restraint and dialogue are also forms of strength.
High Council of State votes to revoke the membership of Abduljalil al-Shawish and Ali Abdulaziz, due to their participation in the 4+4 Mini-Dialogue Committee and their signing of its outcomes
https://t.co/LkrRxwn02y #Libya#ليبيا
نائبة الممثلة الخاصة للشؤون السياسية، ستيفاني خوري، في حديث متلفز: أرسلنا اتفاق الاجتماع المصغر بشأن خارطة الطريق لرئاستي مجلس النواب والمجلس الأعلى للدولة وأمامهما شهر من تاريخ التوقيع للموافقة عليه.
I spoke with Mr. Massad Boulos, Senior Adviser to the U.S. President for Arab & African Affairs, on advancing the Egypt-U.S. strategic partnership and developments in Sudan and Libya, stressing political solutions that safeguard unity and sovereignty of both countries.
Kenya: the right of refugees to earn a living is at risk of being lost as part of a crack-down on foreign-owned small businesses.
NRC is calling for clarity, so that refugees can continue to exercise the legal rights that they already have, and which are vital for people trying to support their families.
Small trade is how many refugee families in Nairobi and other Kenyan towns survive.
Many live in rented accommodation, and a trader who loses their income this month can easily end up losing their home next month. We urge the government to make sure refugees are not caught up in a blanket crack-down.
Kenya's Shirika Plan has been a model for refugee self-reliance, recognising that refugees who can work and trade become contributors to society and the economy. We ask the Government to safeguard their opportunity to earn a living as enforcement begins.
Kenya has long been a generous host to nearly a million refugees, and careful implementation now will ensure that their example can continue.
STATEMENT OF THE AMBASSADOR
On the U.S. Treasury Designation of September 4, 2026
Today the United States Department of the Treasury designated a single Türkiye-based financial institution and two of its subsidiaries for their role in moving funds on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps–Qods Force. We want to place this measure in its proper context, because context is everything, and because the relationship between the United States and the Republic of Türkiye is far larger than any one institution or any one day. Throughout this process, Treasury and its Turkish counterparts have been in direct and continuous contact.
The action is what a great power owes to the integrity of the international financial system. Washington’s maximum-pressure campaign against the Iranian regime depends upon closing, one by one, the channels through which Tehran launders the proceeds of its activities. This designation is aimed at the conduct of one entity, not at a nation, not at a banking system, and not at an ally. It is enforcement, precise and lawful, and the United States makes no apology for protecting the architecture on which honest commerce everywhere depends.
It would be a serious error, here or in Ankara, to read this narrow measure as a judgment upon Türkiye. It is nothing of the kind. Türkiye’s own interest lies in a banking system that is clean, trusted, and beyond the reach of those who would abuse it, and no nation has a greater stake than Türkiye itself in ensuring that its institutions are not turned to purposes their own government would never sanction. The health of the Turkish financial system is not in question; the conduct of one institution was.
For that reason we note with respect that Türkiye has moved as a sovereign partner should. Rather than treat an uncomfortable disclosure as an affront, the Turkish authorities have engaged to clarify the ambiguities surrounding this matter and to inaugurate a process that will strengthen transparency going forward. That is not the reflex of a state with something to conceal; it is the conduct of a mature partner determined that its own house be, and be seen to be, in order. Cooperation of this kind is worth more to the alliance than any assurance offered under pressure, because it is offered freely.
Allies of long standing do not measure their friendship by the absence of difficulty. Between serious partners, friction is not the exception to the relationship but a recurring feature of it, and the test is never whether a difficult matter arises but whether it is met with candor and resolved with dignity. The stability of the region, and the security of the routes and commerce on which both our peoples rely, the United States and Türkiye stand on the same side, as they have through harder trials than this.
We are confident, therefore, that this measure will in time be seen not as a strain upon the partnership but as an instance of its strength: an American action taken after great deliberation, a Turkish response to address with timely and proper investigation, and a shared commitment to transparency that leaves both our nations, and the alliance between them, stronger than before. We will continue this work together, in the same spirit of candor and common purpose that has carried the relationship this far.
🇸🇩 NEW: Eight U.S. senators are urging UN Ambassador Mike Waltz to cut off the financial networks funding Sudan’s war.
In a Sept. 4 letter, Chris Murphy, Andy Kim, Chris Coons, Chris Van Hollen, Bernie Sanders, Jeff Merkley, Tim Kaine and Cory Booker welcomed a proposed nationwide arms embargo and called for:
➤ Banning mercury and sodium cyanide exports for gold mining, with humanitarian exceptions. Gold reportedly pays for weapons and fighters on both sides; the RSF also profits from fees and taxes on mining.
➤ Targeting illicit gum arabic sales. The RSF uses looting and extortion to control trade routes, while smuggling and relabeling conceal Sudanese origin.
➤ Naming arms-embargo violators and exposing foreign military and financial support, a demand with clear implications for the UAE, the RSF’s principal foreign backer, which Van Hollen has also publicly challenged. Trump administration officials have repeatedly declined to name it. That silence also comes amid a major financial tie: UAE national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, the president’s brother, backed a $500 million purchase of 49% of the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial. Of the first $250 million installment, $187 million went to Trump family entities.
Countries prolonging the war “cannot be permitted to continue hiding their role,” they wrote.