Haiti PM whereabouts fuzzy as he’s denied landing in Dominica, gangsters lord ‘orders’ him to stay away after visit to Kenya
Puerto Rico’s governor’s office confirmed Henry had landed in capital San Juan after reports from local media said the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, had earlier disallowed his plane to land.
South Sudanese scholars charged in US with planning to illegally export arms to Juba to overthrow government
A federal criminal complaint unsealed on Monday in Arizona charges Ajak and Abraham Chol Keech, 44, of Utah, with conspiring to purchase and illegally export through a third country to South Sudan a cache of weapons in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the Export Control Reform Act. The weapons that were considered included automatic rifles like AK-47s, grenade launchers, Stinger missile systems, hand grenades, sniper rifles, ammunition and other export-controlled arms.
M23 rebels acquire advanced surface-to-air missiles in push to prise Kivu region from Congo
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has set up a regional mission and force known as SAMIDRC for, at this stage, a year-long deployment to the eastern DRC in the wake of an East African Community (EAC) regional force withdrawal. The United Nations (UN) mission in DRC – MONUSCO – has started withdrawing and is set to exit the troubled central African country by year-end.
Top UN official calls for greater political investment in South Sudan ahead of elections set for December
With both IGAD and the AU having expressed support for the elections the UN “will, therefore, offer as much support as possible in line with its mandate,” he said, stressing the importance of having the requisite architecture to ensure that polls are peaceful and credible.
Gaza Strip health facilities forced to attend to unprecedented numbers of malnourished babies
The worsening hunger crisis has intensified criticism of Israel on the world stage, including from U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, whose country is Israel’s staunchest ally. She said on Sunday that people in Gaza were starving, calling on Israel to do more to significantly increase the flow of aid.
South Africa’s financial capital Johannesbourg hosts new form of tourists – roaming buffalos
The buffaloes disappeared soon after their highway stroll, but security and risk assessment company Bidvest Protea Coin helped authorities hunt them down with a helicopter armed with an infrared camera.
Student pilot and trainer killed in air collision with passenger aircraft over Kenya’s capital
The 39 passengers and five crew members were all unharmed, the airline said. The aircraft, bound for Diani on Kenya’s coast, had “experienced a loud bang soon after take-off”, it said.
Ghana’s president defers action on anti-gay bill as he fears it imperils IMF, World Bank funding
On Monday, Ghana’s Ministry of Finance warned that the bill puts $3.8 billion in World Bank funding at risk and likely would derail the $3 billion International Monetary Fund bailout programme agreed to in 2023 and negatively affect the local currency’s exchange rate.
This man ‘Barbeque’ Cherizier: Haitian gangs’ king who’s sworn to ‘eat’ PM Ariel Henry for lunch
In the wake of Moise’s murder, the security situation in Haiti deteriorated further. Cherizier catapulted the G9 alliance to international notoriety after taking control of Haiti’s main fuel port, essentially holding the country hostage as transport was frozen and hospitals lost their energy supplies.
New survey shows Kenya’s business activity experienced marginal expansion since August
Inflation fell to 6.3 per cent year-on-year in February from 6.9 per cent a month earlier, data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics showed.
