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Kenya plans advance Haiti visits before deployment

Kenya plans advance Haiti visits before deployment

Kenya’s interior minister has said that the country will send assessment delegations to Haiti before deploying police officers to address gang violence there. “There will be other pre-mission visits to Haiti by different players before our officers set foot there,” Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told a parliamentary committee on Thursday. …

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Sports: the IOC suspends the Russian Olympic committee

Sports: the IOC suspends the Russian Olympic committee

The International Olympic Committee suspended the Russian National Olympic Committee (NOC) this Thursday “with immediate effect” for having placed several organizations in occupied Ukrainian regions under its authority, the organization’s spokesperson announced. This decision automatically deprives the Russian body of Olympic funding, but has no consequences on the possible presence …

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UN suspends some Congo peacekeepers for sexual abuse

UN suspends some Congo peacekeepers for sexual abuse

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo announced that it has suspended some of its peacekeepers. “This is in response to reports of serious misconduct,” it said in a statement, adding that it had “zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse”. It did not say how many peacekeepers …

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