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Montevideo, November 17th 2024 - 13:53 UTC

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  • 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.

  • 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.