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A Kenyan High Court has ruled against the government’s plan to deploy police officers to violence-hit Haiti to lead a United Nations-backed multinational mission, declaring it as “unconstitutional”. The UN-approved Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission was aimed at restoring order in the gang-plagued Caribbean nation. According to the Kenyan court, the East African nation can […]
Benin and Bahamas have established diplomatic and cooperation relations between the two countries and have waived visa requirements for all sorts of passports. Fredrick Mitchell, Bahamas’s Foreign Minister and Benin’s counterpart Olushegun Adjadi Bakari sealed the move on the sidelines of the third South-South Summit (G77 + China) held in Kampala, Uganda. In line with […]
The UN-authorized, Kenya-led multinational armed force that is expected to begin arriving in Haiti in early 2024 to assist the national police in its fights against gangs besieging much of the country will face multiple challenges, a recent report published by the Belgium-based International Crisis Group (ICG) warns. The Kenyan-led multinational mission that was approved […]
Kenya’s president William Ruto has welcomed the UN Security Council’s resolution to send a a multinational armed force led by the East African nation to Haiti to help combat violent gangs, pledging “not fail the people of Haiti.” Ruto made these remarks on Tuesday (2 October), only hours after Monday’s vote at the UN that […]
This Monday saw the number of countries having opened diplomatic representations in the Moroccan Sahara increase by two new missions in Laayoune and Dakhla. Bahrain has thus opened this December 14 a consulate general in Laayoune, at a ceremony co-chaired by the Bahraini and Moroccan Foreign Ministers Abdullatif Al Zayani and Nasser Bourita. Bahrain, […]
Haiti inaugurated Saturday its Embassy in Rabat, during a ceremony chaired by Haitian Foreign Minister Claude Joseph and his Moroccans peer Nasser Bourita. Claude Joseph announced, on this occasion, the opening of Haiti’s consulate in Dakhla, on Monday, a move reiterating the Caribbean country’s commitment to support Morocco’s efforts to defend its sovereignty and territorial […]
The Republic of Haiti has decided to open a consulate general in Dakhla, extending thus the list of countries having opened consulates in the Moroccan Sahara. The decision to open the Haitian consulate in Dakhla was announced by Haiti’s Minister of Foreign Affairs in a letter addressed to his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita. The […]
Haiti is eager to benefit from Morocco’s agricultural expertize and is mulling plans to buy fertilizers from the North African country. According to local media Haiti Libre, these cooperation prospects were reviewed at a recent meeting in Rome between Minister of Agriculture Jobert C. Angrand and Morocco’s ambassador to Italy Hassan Abouyoub, who is a […]