Ngandu, 49, replaced Marie-Hélène Mathey-Boo Lowumba as Congo’s ambassador to the United States on Oct. 30, 2025.

This month's Diplomatic Spotlight highlights NUSACC's annual Iftar and the Embassy of Greece's independence day celebration.

On March 28, Right Now for Jamaica (RNFJ) held a gala dinner and concert to raise money for long-term relief following Hurricane Melissa.

Such small-scale options probably won’t quickly achieve either unconditional surrender or regime change, and might even spark a larger, longer conflict involving Iran’s military elites. Before the ...

Muriel Bowser, 53, has been mayor of the District of Columbia since January 2015. (Photo courtesy Office of the Mayor) When Muriel Bowser took office Jan. 2, 2015, as mayor of the District of Columbia ...

With the Winter Games wrapping up in Milan and some 5 billion viewers watching the Olympics this month, diplomats and corporate leaders alike still have time to plan their next major engagement on the ...

Philippine Ambassador José Manuel del Gallego Romualdez is interviewed by Washington Diplomat news editor Larry Luxner during the Ambassador Insider Series on Nov. 12. (All photos by Ben Droz) The ...

Antony Anderson is Jamaica's ambassador to the United States. (Photo by Derrick Scott) Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Antony Anderson had been on the job for exactly five months as Jamaica’s ambassador to the ...

Diplomatic envoys attending the celebrate Timor-Leste accession to ASEAN on Nov. 10. Last month, the Embassy of Timor-Leste celebrated the nation’s accession to the Association of Southeast Asian ...

Vladyslav, a combat lifesaver in the Ukrainian Army whose call sign is “Savage,” was completely drained after two years of constant bloodshed. “The only thing that kept me going was the hope of ...

One of Europe’s poorest and least-known countries, Moldova recently made world headlines when voters decisively rejected efforts by the Kremlin to install a pro-Russia party in Parliament. Final ...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (3rd from left) receives NUSACC President and CEO David Hamod; Mohamed Melainine Ould Eyih, Mauritania's minister of professional development; and Mauritanian Ambassador Cissé ...