warplanes Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/warplanes/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 04 Mar 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 warplanes Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/warplanes/ 32 32 Rex Tillerson to visit some of the countries his president insulted https://jjcornish.com/2018/03/rex-tillerson-visit-countries-president-insulted/ Sun, 04 Mar 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/03/rex-tillerson-visit-countries-president-insulted/ President Donald Trump is sending his Secretary of State this week to the continent he has either ignored or rubbished. Rex Tillerson will visit five countries regarded as US security partners in what will be the first high-profile visit to the continent by a member of the Trump administration US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s […]

The post Rex Tillerson to visit some of the countries his president insulted appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

]]> President Donald Trump is sending his Secretary of State this week to the continent he has either ignored or rubbished.

Rex Tillerson will visit five countries regarded as US security partners in what will be the first high-profile visit to the continent by a member of the Trump administration

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s safari follows the scatological  remarks President Donald Trump used to dismiss African countries last January.

Tillerson will visit Chad, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia and Nigeria.

Going for him is his government selling warplanes to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram and US drones being launched against Al Shabaab terrorists in Somalia.

But Tillerson will have to explain why his department has failed to fill several key posts in Africa and why American trade with the continent is slumping.

The post Rex Tillerson to visit some of the countries his president insulted appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

]]> Egypt apologises for military slaying tourists https://jjcornish.com/2015/09/egypt-apologises-for-military-slaying-tourists/ Mon, 14 Sep 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/09/egypt-apologises-for-military-slaying-tourists/ Egypt’s apologised for mistakenly killing 12 tourists in its Western Desert, believing they were terrorists. The Mexican government, that has at least two victims among the dead and six of the ten wounded, says it is still waiting for answers. ends intro Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu says interviews with survivors reveal the tourists’ […]

The post Egypt apologises for military slaying tourists appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

]]> Egypt’s apologised for mistakenly killing 12 tourists in its Western Desert, believing they were terrorists.
The Mexican government, that has at least two victims among the dead and six of the ten wounded, says it is still waiting for answers.
ends intro
Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu says interviews with survivors reveal the tourists’ convoy of 4×4 vehicles was bombed by warplanes and helicopters while the victims were taking a lunch break.
The tour company maintains they had told tourist police where they were going and were in fact accompanied by police.
Egyptian officials insist the tourists were in an unauthorised area and were using vehicles similar to those transporting the terrorists being hunted.
They say an investigation led by acting Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab will confirm this.

The post Egypt apologises for military slaying tourists appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

]]>