Join PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly at 6 p.m. ET/ 3 p.m. PT on Sunday, Feb. 2 Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Brenton's work has ...

America’s new top diplomat has rarely focused on Africa during his 14 years in the Senate, making his repeated criticism of Algeria particularly noteworthy.