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Haiti's main international airport reopens a month after gang gunfire forced it to close

Dec. 11, 2024 17:09 PM EST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s main international airport reopened on Wednesday to commercial flights, one month after gangs opened fire on planes. It was the second closing this year because of gang violence. Soldiers and police, bolstered by Kenyan police leading a...

Clashes erupt between Somalia's federal troops and regional forces over a disputed local election

Dec. 11, 2024 12:02 PM EST

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Clashes erupted on Wednesday morning in a southern town in Somalia between the country's federal government forces and regional troops of the state of Jubbaland amid escalating tensions over a disputed regional election there. The hourslong fighting in...

Police in Kenya hurl tear gas at protesters angry about gender-based violence

Dec. 10, 2024 09:26 AM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police in Kenya’s capital hurled tear gas canisters Tuesday at hundreds of protesters angry about gender-based violence and femicide, or the killing of women, and arrested an unknown number of people. Protesters chanting “Stop femicide” were dispersed by...

Kenya police boss denies reports officers in Haiti peacekeeping mission haven't been paid in months

Dec. 06, 2024 14:19 PM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's top police official has denied reports that officers serving in the United Nations-backed multinational peacekeeping mission in Haiti have gone unpaid for three months. The police inspector general, Douglas Kanja, on Thursday said officers in Haiti had...

Under assault by gangs in Haiti, a Kenyan-led mission fights back

Dec. 06, 2024 10:38 AM EST

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An armored vehicle carrying Kenyan police rumbles through Haiti's capital with a shattered window that a high-caliber bullet failed to penetrate, a permanent sign of violence the officers face almost daily in Port-au-Prince. The Kenyans, who were...

Some young Kenyans turn to kung fu for self-improvement in difficult times

Dec. 05, 2024 00:31 AM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Growing up on the semi-arid plains of eastern Kenya, Evans Munzaa had planned his future. He envisioned an information technology job, a wife and two children by age 30. But the 31-year-old father hasn't had a formal job since completing college 10 years ago,...

South Sudan peace talks resume after 4 months and the sacking of a government delegation

Dec. 04, 2024 15:33 PM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — After four months and the sacking of a government delegation, the stalled South Sudan peace talks resumed Wednesday in Kenya, the latest effort to end the conflict that has long crippled the African country's economy. The talks are taking place between...

Left behind in Kenya, children of British soldiers struggle to find their identity

Dec. 01, 2024 00:05 AM EST

NANYUKI, Kenya (AP) — Margaret Wandia became pregnant after a week-long relationship with a British soldier training near her community in Kenya. They met while she worked at a bar in her early 20s. She knew little about him. He left her with a biracial child. Now that son is 26,...

Kenya cancels airport and energy deals with Adani group after the US indicts the Indian tycoon

Nov. 21, 2024 10:59 AM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president said Thursday that he has cancelled multimillion-dollar airport expansion and energy deals with Indian tycoon Gautam Adani after U.S. bribery and fraud indictments against one of Asia's richest men. President William Ruto said in a state of...

Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led force in Haiti to a UN peacekeeping mission

Nov. 20, 2024 23:35 PM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China on Wednesday opposed a U.S.-led campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti helping police to tackle escalating gang violence into a U.N. peacekeeping mission. The two allies called a U.N. Security Council meeting as gangs...