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By Nicholas ROLL Washington (AFP) - Confrontés au besoin urgent de rétablir la sécurité mais aussi de regagner la confiance de la population, les nouveaux dirigeants haïtiens doivent se livrer à un difficile jeu d'équilibriste avec l'arrivée de policiers kényans à Port-au-Prince. Les autorités provisoires, qui n'ont pas été élues, et leurs soutiens internationaux affirment que la mission menée par le Kenya et appuyée par l'ONU est essentielle pour arracher la capitale aux gangs qui terrorisent les habitants. Mais le souvenir de précédentes interventions étrangères reste vif. "Après leur départ...
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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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After months of deadlock in embattled Haiti, interim Prime Minister Garry Conille has formed a new cabinet, with the 14 names published in the country's Official Gazette on Tuesday. The new transitional government begins its work as the poverty-stricken Caribbean island nation faces one of its worst political and social crises to date. Heavily armed gangs currently control most of the capital Port-au-Prince, which has been gripped by deadly violence for years. The situation escalated in February when an alliance of different groups paralysed the city with a series of attacks. They also forced ...
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Jammu (Inde) (AFP) - Les hommes armés qui ont attaqué dimanche soir un bus de pèlerins hindous au Cachemire sous administration indienne ont continué à tirer pendant plusieurs minutes même après la chute du véhicule dans un ravin, ont raconté mardi des survivants traumatisés de l'attaque, qui a fait neuf morts. "Des balles ont d'abord atteint un pneu du bus et il s'est écrasé contre un arbre. Ma tête s'est coincée sous le siège devant moi", a raconté Palit Gupta, une jeune fille faisant partie des 33 personnes blessées. "Mon papa m'a sortie alors que je pleurais et que je criais +sauvez-moi+",...
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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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Edgard Leblanc Fils on Tuesday was elected as the chairman of Haiti's newly created transitional presidential council, in what is considered an important step on the way out of the country's serious political crisis. The seven voting members of the council elected the former Senate president from among their ranks on Tuesday. According to media reports, a majority of the council also voted for former sports minister Fritz Bélizaire to become the new interim prime minister. However, there were also complaints that his election was not in accordance with the rules. The creation of the transition...
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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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