Saudi Arabia's King Salman has already appointed a new foreign minister as part of a major cabinet shakeup, according to Saudi state media.
A royal decree named Ibrahim al-Assaf as new foreign minister, demoting outgoing chief diplomat Adel al-Jubeir to the position of minister of state for foreign affairs.
Thursday's shake-up is the first major cabinet reordering since the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in October by a Saudi hit and run squad.
and the search for a guinea pig continues, even when it is clear that such attack was rather within planned and executed by the crown prince MBS.
US military has deployed soldiers to Gabon amid fears of violent protests in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo in anticipation of . Donald Trump told Congress on Friday that the first of about 80 troops arrived in Gabon on Wednesday to protect US citizens and diplomatic facilities should violence break out in DRC’s capital Kinshasa Voters in Congo went to the polls on December 30, two years after they were first scheduled to be held, to elect the successor to President Joseph Kabila, who has been in power for 18 years. “The first of these personnel arrived in Gabon on January 2, 2019, with appropriate combat equipment and supported by military aircraft,” Trump’s letter to Congress read.“Additional forces may deploy to Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the Republic of the Congo, if necessary for these purposes.” “These deployed personnel will remain in the region until the security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo becomes such that their presen
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