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Kenya’s police officers ready to deploy in violence-stricken Haiti in ‘few days, few weeks’

Hundreds of Kenyan police officers have been training since late last year as the East African country is preparing to dispatch them as the first wave of a UN-backed multinational force aimed at stabilizing the chaos-ridden Caribbean nation of Haiti. Kenyan police will deploy to Haiti, a country of 11.6 million people, “in the next […]

Ethiopia removes ‘terrorist’ label from Tigray rebel group

The terrorist designation given to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, will be removed, Ethiopian lawmakers decided in a special session Wednesday (22 March), but UN human rights experts have warned that violations committed during the armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region must still be investigated if long-term peace is to be achieved. Lawmakers […]

PJD to join opposition after humiliating electoral failure

Morocco’s Islamist PJD party said it will join the opposition after leading the government for two consecutive terms. The Party’s general secretariat members said they were resigning including its leader Saad Dine El Otmani. The party is in disarray after it came eighth in general elections with only 13 in the 395-seat parliament, in what […]