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Washington (AFP) - Western powers called Monday for calm in Bangladesh after long-ruling leader Sheikh Hasina fled, with the United States saluting the military for forming an interim government rather than cracking down further on protesters. Sheikh Hasina, who had particularly close relations with regional power India, enjoyed a mostly cooperative relationship with the West during her 15 years in power but had increasingly drawn criticism for her authoritarian turn. The United States called on all sides in Bangladesh to "refrain from further violence" as bullet-ridden bodies were strewn acro...
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Washington (AFP) - Haiti's new leader was in the United States on Saturday for a visit set to include meetings with international financial institutions as well as a White House official, his office and a National Security Council spokesperson said. The trip by Prime Minister Garry Conille, heading the country's transitional government, and other officials comes days after Kenyan police finally arrived in violence-ravaged Haiti, on a long-awaited mission to help stabilize the Caribbean nation, upended by powerful gangs. Washington has promised generous funding for the UN-backed mission, but r...
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Nairobi (AFP) - Kenyan police will deploy to quell gang violence in Haiti probably within weeks, the east African country's President William Ruto said on Sunday, despite court challenges that delayed the mission. Kenya is aiming to lead a UN-backed mission to secure the Caribbean nation, stricken by violence, poverty and political instability. The east African nation is scheduled to send 1,000 officers for the mission alongside personnel from several other countries. "The people of Haiti are maybe waiting, by the grace of God, that probably by next week or the other week, we shall send our po...
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Nairobi (AFP) - Kenyan President William Ruto voiced confidence Friday that a UN-backed mission tasked with quelling gang-fuelled anarchy in Haiti would go ahead. Kenya has offered to send about 1,000 police as the head of a multinational force for the troubled Caribbean nation, with the deployment expected in a matter of weeks. There had been speculation a first contingent would arrive last week to coincide with Ruto's state visit to Washington, but instead an advance team was sent to carry out reconnaissance work. "In light of Kenya's lead role in the UN Security Council mandated Multination...
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Washington (AFP) - Three years ago, Derrick Evans was taking part in the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol, joining hundreds of other Donald Trump supporters who refused to accept his defeat in the presidential election. Now he is campaigning to serve in the very legislative body he targeted that day. And he's not alone: across the United States, around a dozen people involved in the siege of the Capitol -- an attack that shook confidence in the stability of American democracy -- have sought or are seeking to hold local or national office this year. Evans is running in his state's...
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Port-au-Prince (AFP) - The United States on Thursday deported more than 50 Haitian migrants, US and Haitian officials said, sending them back to a country which has been beset by spiraling gang violence in recent weeks. In total, 52 Haitians landed at the airport in the city of Cap-Haitien Thursday, a Haitian immigration official told AFP. The repatriation flight was announced by a spokesperson for the US Department of Homeland Security. "US policy is to return noncitizens who do not establish a legal basis to remain in the United States," the spokesperson said. Since the end of February, pow...
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Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Fourteen bodies were found in an affluent suburb of Haiti's capital Monday, as international efforts accelerated to fill a political vacuum created by weeks of gang violence that has forced the impending departure of the prime minister. Local residents told AFP they did not know the circumstances of the deaths but said that the Laboule and Thomassin neighborhoods, in the suburb of Petion-Ville, had been under attack by what they said were armed criminals since dawn. Witnesses said gang members attacked a bank, a gas station and homes in the area. Gunfire continued to rin...
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Washington (AFP) - Weeks before the latest violence broke out in Haiti, the self-described "king" of a Haitian gang was in a US court pleading guilty to smuggling AK47s and a .50 caliber rifle to the Caribbean nation. "The Justice Department will aggressively pursue every tool at its disposal to hold accountable those who would smuggle US-origin weapons and other controlled goods for the benefit of malicious actors," prosecutors said at the time. But as conflict rages between Haiti's gangs and police, the guilty plea of Joly Germine, 31, in late January for smuggling some two dozen weapons ha...
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Kingston (Jamaica) (AFP) - Leaders at an emergency summit on Haiti's descent into anarchy voiced hope Monday at pushing through a political solution, as the United States ramped up aid for a Kenyan-led force aimed at restoring stability. The Caribbean bloc CARICOM called the session in Jamaica after armed gangs that already control much of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince unleashed a campaign of violence, with the Western hemisphere's poorest nation plunging into an orgy of killing and looting and fears rising of famine. "It is clear that Haiti is now at a tipping point," said Jamaican Prime Min...
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Nairobi (AFP) - A reciprocal agreement between Kenya and Haiti to send police from the East African nation to the violence-wracked country has raised hopes the Nairobi-led, UN-backed multinational peace mission could deploy soon. But the Kenyan government still faces legal hurdles in soldiering on with the plan after a court decision put the brakes on the deployment to the gang-ravaged Caribbean nation. AFP looks at key questions and answers about what lies next: How soon can the deployment begin? The plan has faced legal challenges at every turn since it was announced last year and was decla...
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