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Montevideo, May 6th 2025 - 23:36 UTC

Tag: Kenya

  • Tuesday, June 25th 2024 - 20:18 UTC

    Kenyan peacekeeping forces land in Haiti

    Kenya intends to send a total of 1,000 troops of which the first 400 have arrived at their destination

    The first batch of Kenyan law enforcement officers making up a UN peacekeeping mission landed Tuesday at Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture Airport. The African country intends to send a total of 1,000 troops to the Caribbean nation gripped by rogue gangs, resulting in over 580,000 people nationwide left homeless from pillaging.

  • Monday, January 29th 2024 - 14:51 UTC

    Kenya led UN law and order mission to Haiti ruled 'unconstitutional'

    Kenya had been prepared to send up to 1,000 police and security personnel across the Atlantic, the first 300 of whom had been expected to arrive this month.

    The troubled island of Haiti, desperate for a multinational force to help combat rising gang violence, with over 5,000 people murdered last year, and several UN failed sponsored peace missions, has again been disappointed. The offer from the east African nation of Kenya to help with such a force has faced the country's top court ruling of 'unconstitutional'.

  • Wednesday, November 1st 2023 - 14:19 UTC

    King Charles in Kenya addressed British colonial past and abuses

    Charles said that “the wrongdoings of the past are a cause of the greatest sorrow and the deepest regret,” but he stopped short of making a full apology for the abuses (Pic AP)

    King Charles is in Kenya in his first foreign visit as a monarch to a Commonwealth nation where he addressed the colonial past of British rule in East Africa, and abuses committed by colonial forces, especially in the 1950's during the Kenyan struggle for independence.

  • Monday, July 31st 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Kenya willing to help Haiti

    ”Kenya has accepted to positively consider leading a Multi-National Force to Haiti,” Mutua said.

    Following an international appeal for help to crisis-torn Haiti, Kenya's Foreign Minister Alfred Mutua said in a statement Saturday that his country was ready to participate in a multinational force to curb the escalating violence in the Caribbean country.

  • Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 21:53 UTC

    Kenyan paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey dies at age 77

    Leakey's most notorious discovery was that of the Turkana Boy in 1984

    Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, whose surname is tantamount to the origins of mankind, has died Sunday at his native Nairobi, it was announced. He was 77.

  • Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

    The Hague Court awards Somalia most of the territorial sea claimed also by Kenya

    The ruling is technically binding but the ICJ lacks enforcing powers

    The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Tuesday drew a new maritime legal border between Somalia and Kenya in the Indian Ocean after a bitter legal battle between the two countries over boundaries involving areas potentially rich in oil and gas, it was announced.

  • Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

    Poachers in Kenya kill the only female white giraffe and her calf

    The bodies of the two giraffes were found “in a skeletal state after being killed by armed poachers” in Garissa in eastern Kenya

    Kenya's only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, conservationists said on Tuesday, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world.

  • Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 - 15:11 UTC

    The big winners in Kenya’s oil debut

    More than 300 million barrels of oil equivalent resources have been discovered in Kenya’s South Lokichar Basin

    Kenya will start pumping its first commercial oil next year and begin exporting in 2016, but this is just the opening salvo: new discoveries in recent months and fast-track new well development make Kenya the darling of East Africa from an investor’s perspective.

  • Sunday, August 14th 2011 - 08:22 UTC

    A Window Into Kibera: Human Beings Being Human

    If one reads the world’s news’ main headlines on any given day, the vast majority of the stories will most certainly deal with issues related to violence, hatred, prejudice, corruption, greed, paranoia, or fear.