Raisi visited the Kenyan capital, where trade talks with President William Ruto topped the agenda. Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi reports from Nairobi, Kenya. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ #EbrahimRaisi #IranianPresident #RaisiAfricaTour #RaisiInKenya #Iran #Kenya #WilliamRuto #IranAfricaTies #IranKenyaTies #IranSanctions #AlJazeeraEnglish
Kenyan soldiers have landed in the city of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as part of a regional peacekeeping mission to the region. Their arrival on Saturday comes as the M23 rebel group has surged across the DRC’s North Kivu province, capturing swaths of territory and inflaming regional tensions. This week, Kenya’s Parliament approved the deployment of about 900 soldiers to the DRC as part of a joint military force from the East African Community (EAC) bloc. Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb reports from Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our […]
Kenyan President William Ruto says his country is sending more than 900 military personnel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to join a new regional force tasked with trying to calm deadly tensions fuelled by armed groups. Ruto on Wednesday called the mission “necessary and urgent” for regional security and said he and the DRC’s president had agreed on how Kenyan forces would work with Congolese and other forces on disarming rebels and peacekeeping in the country’s troubled east. The Kenyan forces will be based in Goma, eastern DRC’s largest city. The East African Community regional force, agreed upon by heads of state in June and led by […]
The secrets of the rich and powerful are exposed in the biggest trove of leaked offshore data in history. It has been revealed the king of Jordan has amassed a property empire worth more than $100m. He is among 30 world leaders and 100 billionaires detailed in the Pandora Papers – a collection of millions of files published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. To discuss the international reaction from the United States and Europe, we speak to our correspondents Mike Hanna in Washington, DC and Rory Challands in London. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – […]
