Kenya to lead multi-nat. stabilizing force in Haiti/*UN Security Council approves/* They've landed in Haiti

[desjardins]

He wasn't a rogue cop, that was a policing strategy from the top down. A simple google search shows all the human right investigations into Kenyan police brutality, over a 1000 ppl have been killed by police in Nairobi alone in the last decade. It's a known issue and I don't trust them to suddenly change in a volatile place like Haiti

Kenya police are told not to report deaths during protests. A watchdog says they killed 6 this week

Police in Kenya say they have been ordered not to report deaths amid demonstrations against the rising cost of living.

apnews.com

Kenyan Police involved in the killing of 12 people- Amnesty, HRW | Africanews

Kenyan police were involved in the killing of 12 people, including two children, during violent opposition demonstrations in March, two rights groups said on Wednesday, denouncing a lack of accountability.

www.africanews.com

Coalition: Kenyan Police Involved in Dozens of Killings; Security Forces Deny

Rights groups meet with victims and survivors of police abuse in Nairobi to bring an end to unlawful killings and disappearances

www.voanews.com

Kenyan Police Have Killed Hundreds During the Pandemic. Yassin Moyo Was One of Them.

Nairobi, Kenya’s police took the COVID-19 lockdown as an opportunity to increase violent harassment of the city’s citizens. Since 2020, police have killed more than 326 people. Among them: 13-year-old Yassin Moyo.

jacobin.com

Multiple people killed by police for simply protesting

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

The Land of Dessalines

Someone will do the needful to those Kenyans

 

[Wiseborn]

you love buffoonish hyperbole

i can't even keep up.. in the same thread where Kenya sold itself to the U.S. we are also owned by China and i also find out SA is an Indian entity...

you really jumping out the lunatic box this week

Jesus Christ

I'm not expecting you to shyt on your country but don't be telling blatant ass lies. They literally J6'ed the City Hall and the Parliament building Because the President wanted to raise taxes on EVERYTHING

and he campaigned on helping the Huslters (small time businesspeople) and why is he raising taxes To pay for all those chinese loans

I mean the difference between Kenya and Tanzania is stark TZ just opened their SGR with ALL TANZANIAN Conductors go on the SGR of Kenya all Chinese drivers "training" their eventual Kenyan replacements. ( so they say(

If what I say triggers you could just ignore it.

 

[get these nets]

*In Kreyol, roughly 27 minutes (but the translator's voice is loud enough to hear). Current Prime Minister and the Kenyan point person, Monica Juma hold press conference


June 25, 2024

UN-backed contingent of foreign police arrives in Haiti as Kenya-led force prepares to face gangs

A couple hundred police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.

apnews.com

 

[papa pimp]

Jesus Christ

I'm not expecting you to shyt on your country but don't be telling blatant ass lies. They literally J6'ed the City Hall and the Parliament building Because the President wanted to raise taxes on EVERYTHING

and he campaigned on helping the Huslters (small time businesspeople) and why is he raising taxes To pay for all those chinese loans

I mean the difference between Kenya and Tanzania is stark TZ just opened their SGR with ALL TANZANIAN Conductors go on the SGR of Kenya all Chinese drivers "training" their eventual Kenyan replacements. ( so they say(

If what I say triggers you could just ignore it.

Yeah its wild dude is blatantly trying to deny something anyone can look up fairly easily.

While China isn't the only culprit (World Bank, IMF, Eurobonds), they are a key cog in the endless debt cycle you see across Africa.

This is from an article a full year ago:

Both Chinese and commercial lenders have exerted a constraining influence on Kenya’s overall debt management strategy. Fears that a clause in Kenya’s Eurobonds could see any debt relief interpreted as default – potentially triggering a full loan recall – initially prevented Kenya from accessing the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) in 2020. When Kenya eventually joined the DSSI, its full impact was limited to the first half of 2021 as China unilaterally refused any extension beyond that date.

With African countries also effectively shut out from international markets under current global conditions, Kenya is reluctantly reverting to costly syndicated loans to supplement inflows from the IMF and World Bank in bridging the 2024 Eurobond gap, while juggling other schemes to address short-term exchange pressures such as an oil credit agreement.

Compounding China’s inflexibility, Kenya’s much-prized market access has managed to be both an obstacle to relief and often inaccessible when needed.

Although the repayment of the SGR loans has been onerous, there should have been far greater concern about the railway’s inflated construction costs and its consistent failure to generate revenue despite government intervention to mandate cargo traffic.

This is a legacy of poor Kenyan decision-making and a planning process driven more by short-term electioneering than strategic need. Chinese lending was one component of a surge in borrowing under the Kenyatta administration which saw Kenya’s debt-to-GDP ratio rise from 42 to 69 per cent between 2013 and 2020.

Controversies over China should not obscure the ways in which the structures of the global financial system and the dynamics of domestic governance interact to drive debt distress.

Fiscal consolidation aimed at addressing the resulting debt pressure and retaining IMF support has been a defining feature of the Ruto administration’s first nine months in office, with the removal of government subsidies on food and fuel now joined by proposed tax increases.

Such measures are proving deeply unpopular with Kenyan citizens already feeling the strain of high inflation and currency depreciation, and many have sought to highlight a disparity with the government’s unwillingness to reduce its own expenditure and wastage – most notably a bloated appointments system.

 

[Wiseborn]

Yeah its wild dude is blatantly trying to deny something anyone can look up fairly easily.

While China isn't the only culprit (World Bank, IMF, Eurobonds), they are a key cog in the endless debt cycle you see across Africa.

This is from an article a full year ago:

I was there when the deals with the SGR and the new highways were signed. The SGR deal happened after a single 2 hour meeting in dubai *where they'd usually stash the illicit cash* Kenyatta was in the Paradise Papers all this shyt was in Kenyan Media TZ Uganda and the DRC pulled out of the SGR because they knew it was way too much money and a dept trap so that's why the K shilling dropped over 30% in value against the dollar they floated bonds and they have to raise taxes

Again I love Kenya but we can't tell blatant lies the corruption is on another level compared to it's neighbors.

We don't even have to get into the fake fertilizer scandal that some politicians were selling to Kenyan Farmers that was supposed to be either free or sold at a discount.

 

[papa pimp]

I was there when the deals with the SGR and the new highways were signed. The SGR deal happened after a single 2 hour meeting in dubai *where they'd usually stash the illicit cash* Kenyatta was in the Paradise Papers all this shyt was in Kenyan Media TZ Uganda and the DRC pulled out of the SGR because they knew it was way too much money and a dept trap so that's why the K shilling dropped over 30% in value against the dollar they floated bonds and they have to raise taxes

Again I love Kenya but we can't tell blatant lies the corruption is on another level compared to it's neighbors.

We don't even have to get into the fake fertilizer scandal that some politicians were selling to Kenyan Farmers that was supposed to be either free or sold at a discount.

I knew China was just as bad as the World Bank when I landed in Kenya for the first time and went to the Masai market and all the clothing and artwork was CLEARLY manufactured in China. And this was a theme I saw across Africa where Chinese goods had flooded African markets to the point where local producers couldn't compete.

And yeah Kenyan politicians are horrible. Signing wack loan deals, skimming money off the top, and spending it on their slay queen mistresses.

 

[Silver Surfer]

US just needs to take it over and be done with it

 

[Wiseborn]

I knew China was just as bad as the World Bank when I landed in Kenya for the first time and went to the Masai market and all the clothing and artwork was CLEARLY manufactured in China. And this was a theme I saw across Africa where Chinese goods had flooded African markets to the point where local producers couldn't compete.

And yeah Kenyan politicians are horrible. Signing wack loan deals, skimming money off the top, and spending it on their slay queen mistresses.

Yep Kenya had a cotton industry before China came through and crushed he buildings now it's Chinese grey market shyt and used clothes only.

I seen a dude wearing the T-Shirt of my High school in DC once.

 

[Wiseborn]

US just needs to take it over and be done with it

It seems like reunification wouldn't be the worse thing.

Even if Haiti was on it's feet economically they need to plant billions of Trees and the Haitian side is earthquake and hurricane prone. The capital of Haiti should be Santo Domingo really, Port au Prince lies on a fault line sooner or later there's gonna be another earthquake.

 

[Chrishaune]

They just burned the President's plane.

 

[get these nets]

Grateful for this..a lot of people don't understand the magnitude of violence these gang members are inflicting on the population.

Yes.
There were two options.
1) Do nothing and watch as the gangs murdered more people, kidnapped more people, seized more infrastructure, and terrorized more neighborhoods

2) Ask for outside help to control and stop the reign of the gangs.

Literally the only two options . And knowing everything that we know about the facts on the ground & all parties involved on June 27, 2024, I doubt that any single member here would select option A.

 

[WIA20XX]

Big grain of salt with Simon Whistler

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Big grain of salt with Simon Whistler

He’s an actor hired by a neoliberal company

 

[WIA20XX]

He’s an actor hired by a neoliberal company

He's not doing that particular show anymore. They got other people to do that joint.

He does like a dozen different channels,

Simon's Channels

List of YouTube channels/podcasts hosted by Simon Whistler.

www.imdb.com

Still he comes off dude bro a lot.

In any event, the neo liberal/globalist intervention in Haiti is failing according to him.

The Kenyans are underfunded and not equipped for this operation.