The State Department has not said whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken specifically raised LGBTQ rights during his trip to Nigeria last week. Blinken was in the country between Jan. 23-24. He ...

Foreign Policy. Christian groups furious at Blinken for removing Nigeria from religious violence list Critics are blasting the secretary of State’s move as the “revenge of the bureaucracy.” ...

Blinken’s call contradicts US position on Nigeria’s sham poll —Atiku. Reacting to Blinken’s call to Tinubu, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, said ...

A group of two dozen human rights groups is calling on the Secretary Blinken to designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern after the brutal murder of 200 Christians.

He should have known better – this was how Tony Blinken responded to President Donald Trump’s most recent headline-grabbing missteps. “It’s one thing to say, ‘Look, you know, he didn’t ...

Perhaps Blinken simply wanted to ingratiate himself to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, a man whose legacy rests in perpetrating genocide a half-century ago. If that was his strategy, it ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said the United States is determined to remain a strong security partner for Nigeria, whose military is backed by the U.S., Britain and other allies in ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Nigeria on Thursday as persistent unrest and human rights concerns prompt calls for a rethink of the US relationship with Africa’s most populous nation.

Blinken removed Nigeria from the list in 2021, reversing a decision by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in December 2020 to blacklist the West African nation.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Nigeria, the second stop on his three-nation Africa tour. He took the opportunity at a news conference to send a warning to Sudan's military rulers.

Biden announces top foreign policy and national security picks 01:50. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to announce Tony Blinken, a longtime diplomat and a member of Mr. Biden's inner circle ...