1100 Kenyans Will Not Save Haiti

1100 Kenyans Will Not Save Haiti

Editorial credit: Daniel-Alvarez / Shutterstock.com By Ebenezer Obadare and Robert I . Rotberg | October 12, 2023 The UN-authorized Kenyan peace mission to Haiti is a welcome gesture, but it falls drastically short of the help the country urgently needs to establish a modern state. Professor Robert I. Rotberg is a long-time CFR member. He is also […]

Why Kenya is Sending Police Officers into Haiti

Why Kenya is Sending Police Officers into Haiti

Editorial credit: Ericky Boniphace / Shutterstock.com By Ellen Loanes | October 4, 2023 Once again, the international community will intervene in Haiti, this time to stabilize the security situation in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where gangs have terrorized civilians for the past two years. The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution Monday authorizing a […]

Kenya Urges quick UN Green Light of Haiti Mission

Kenya Urges quick UN Green Light of Haiti Mission

Editorial credit: Alexandros Michailidis / Shutterstock.com By AFP Kenyan President William Ruto on Thursday urged the United Nations to quickly authorize an international security mission to Haiti, which it has agreed to lead, as the impoverished Caribbean nation suffers from devastating gang violence. “Haiti is the ultimate test of international solidarity and collective action,” Ruto […]

Prospect of Kenyan troops in Haiti has sparked concerns – but may also prompt soul-searching across the Americas over lack of action

Prospect of Kenyan troops in Haiti has sparked concerns – but may also prompt soul-searching across the Americas over lack of action

By Jorge Heine | August 16, 2023 The kidnapping and subsequent release of U.S. nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her young daughter in Haiti in early August 2023 drew brief international attention to crime in the impoverished Caribbean nation. But the truth is that such kidnappings are commonplace for Haitians, and they rarely receive attention from outside the country […]

Kenya’s elite join a growing list of Africans buying up second passports from Caribbean nations

Kenya’s elite join a growing list of Africans buying up second passports from Caribbean nations

By Stephen Kafeero, QZ With a growing number of Western Countries including the US, UK and the European Union tightening their immigration and visa polices, citizens of African countries are finding it harder to travel abroad. Given the odds, global residence and citizenship advisory firms like Henley & Partners and CS Global Partners are seeing […]

Japan Slowly Challenges China’s Dominance As An Investor In Africa

Japan Slowly Challenges China’s Dominance As An Investor In Africa

Japan raised its investment to Africa in 2014 with a pledge of $32 billion that included aid, loans and commercial projects over the following three years. From 2008 to 2012, the well-off East Asian country had put out just $9 billion for Africa, geopolitical intelligence service Stratfor Enterprises says. Two years ago Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe […]