The US sanctions a Rwanda official and a rebel spokesperson over violence in eastern Congo
Along with the Rwandan minister for regional integration, James Kabarebe, the U.S. also sanctioned a spokesperson of the M23 rebels, Lawrence Kanyuka Kingston. Two companies linked to Kanyuka and ...
Kenya security officials plead not guilty to triple murder
More than a dozen Kenyan security officials pleaded not guilty on Thursday to the 2022 murders of two Indians and a Kenyan, a high-profile case that was among several incidents that triggered the ...
UN chief tells Caribbean leaders he’s ready to present Haiti security plan
Months after Haiti filed a formal request for the return of blue-helmet United Nations peacekeepers to help fight criminal ...
Guterres to propose UN assumes funding for mission struggling to fight gangs in Haiti
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres says he will request that the United Nations assumes funding for the structural and ...
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State boosts security budget by Sh23b amid rising crime threats
The government has allocated an additional Sh23.3 billion for security and defence expenditure in the 2024/2025 financial ...
As Haiti teeters on brink of a violent collapse, group warns against elections this year
Any elections held under Haiti’s current warlike conditions, where armed gangs are carrying out mass killings and members of ...
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Raila was 'too strong' a candidate to win AU election - Analyst weighs in on Kenya's loss
Raila Odinga, Kenya’s candidate in the AU Commission chairperson race, was too strong a candidate to win. This is according to international relations and security expert, Dr Edgar Githua.
Canada rep to UN says situation in Haiti is ‘challenging,’ but donors remain committed
Haiti National Police and members of the Kenya-led multinational force were in the hills above Port-au-Prince battling armed ...
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President Trump must decide soon if US jeans will still be made in Africa
The factory may be in East Africa, but the Wrangler and Levi’s jeans rolling off the production line are pure Americana, ...
In Haiti, Trump’s assault on foreign aid is ‘a gift to the gangs’
With gang violence keeping Haiti trapped in its worst crisis in decades, President Trump’s effort to freeze foreign aid and ...
15 years after devastating earthquake, Haiti is being transformed into a concentration camp
Haiti is being transformed into one of the world’s largest concentration camps, its people confronting a slow genocide from ...