Haiti police chiefs in Nairobi for meetings with Kenyan commanders prior to deployment of UN mission to fight gangs
A UN-approved stabilisation mission to Haiti that started in June 2004 was marred by a sexual abuse scandal and the introduction of cholera, which killed nearly 10,000 people. The mission ended in October 2017.
Gang-ravaged Haiti replaces police boss with former chief pending arrival of Kenyan force
A recent survey by local rights group RNDDH found that 20 police officers have been killed so far this year and more than 320 since 2015. Police officers also reported late pay, insufficient training, workplace harassment, dismissal threats, knife and gunshot injuries and equipment shortages – including of weapons, ammunition, shields and vehicles.
WFP to refugees in Kenya: We provide free food, free water, free health and education, so you should accept cut food rations
The cuts to both food and vouchers were imposed with little warning, people in Dadaab – Kenya’s largest refugee settlement – complained. They also came on the heels of heavy flooding in April, which displaced 20,000 people and drove up prices in local markets, deepening everyone’s despair.
Spain applies to be enjoined in South Africa’s case at World Court that accuses Israel of genocide
Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Libya and the Palestinians have already requested to join the case currently being heard at the court in The Hague, Netherlands. The court has ordered Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah but stopped short of ordering a ceasefire for the enclave. Israel has not complied.
WHO Treaty: Globalists spent time, effort, money and brainpower to construct a worldwide totalitarian police state on health
Critics called the proposals a global “power grab” that threatened national sovereignty, health freedom, personal liberties and free speech while promoting risky gain-of-function research and “health passports.”
EU official denies allegations that Western powers want to delay South Sudan’s elections
Last week, the interim chairperson of an international commission to oversee South Sudan’s 2015 peace agreement, Charles Tai Gitau of Kenya, said there was no evidence of sufficient preparation to conduct elections. He cited the lack of electoral bodies at the state level and a delay in the publishing of a voters register.
UN extends South Sudan arms embargo despite appeals from African Union, Russia and China
Russia’s deputy UN ambassador Anna Evstigneeva accused the United States of ignoring all the positive achievements in South Sudan and focusing on sanctions “which they present as a sort of panacea for all of the country’s problems.”
Kenyan police advance team to Haiti returns to Nairobi as international mission is delayed
The officials arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, met the Haitian police on Thursday and the transitional presidential council on Friday. The United States has agreed to contribute $300 million to a multinational force that will include 1,000 Kenyan police officers and others drawn from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda and other countries.
UN refugee camps have makings of prisons, but ongoing law reforms in Kenya may catapult it to a refugee rights champion
While the Kenyan government has not yet addressed citizenship rights for refugees, it has shown signs of adopting more progressive refugee policies in recent years. Together with the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) and its development partners, it has drafted a multi-year, multi-million dollar ‘Shirika Plan’, which aims to transform Kenya’s sprawling camp-cities into self-reliant open settlements, where refugees can live, work, and set up businesses among their local hosts.
‘You have guns, you don’t need a salary’ mantra sowed in national army by past regimes makes it difficult for UN forces to repulse Congo rebels
Criminality continues to bedevil the Congolese military, a major flaw that is cited in nearly every report of the UN Group of Experts on the DRC since 2011. Congolese security forces set up illegal roadblocks to extort citizens. They parcel off and control fiefdoms. They sell weapons to whomever is willing to pay, including the very forces they are fighting. They make deals with shadowy businessmen to pilfer minerals into neighbouring countries. These practices have long been the norm.
