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Kenya’s US-backed police deployment in Haiti has come under increasing scrutiny as the death toll amongst its officers rises, with three now confirmed dead since the…

One Caribbean island nation is not amused by US threats of visa restrictions against officials facilitating Cuba’s medical internationalism. In this recent video clip, Barbados Prime…

US Senator Marco Rubio has targeted Cuba’s long-standing medical internationalism program, imposing visa restrictions on Cuban officials based on allegations of forced labour. The US government…

Anti-Haitian discrimination in the US has a long history, rooted in events that date back to the Haitian Revolution of 1804. After Haiti became the first…

A 28-year-old Kenyan police officer was k*lled in Haiti on 23 February during a patrol with the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), marking its first…

More than 150 Kenyan riot police have arrived in Haiti’s capital, just days after US President Donald Trump halted funding for a Nairobi-led UN security mission.…

Disregarding the widespread opposition in his country to the Kenya-led, UN-authorised and US-backed Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti, Kenyan President William Ruto deployed the first…

On 19 January, 217 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti, increasing the number of Kenyan personnel deployed to the Caribbean country to over 600. This comes despite…

On 25 June 2024, the first group of Kenya’s police arrived in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on a UN-authorised and US-backed Multinational Security Support Mission.…

Like others before him, Dominican Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs Roberto Álvarez Gil tried whitewashing his country’s historical identity in an April 2024 interview with @aljazeera.…