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What's Happening A month's long dispute between Kenya and Uganda over oil importation licenses has finally come to an end. The dispute between the two nations began when Kenya refused to provide licenses to the Uganda National Oil Corporation (UNOC) in order to allow them to operate locally, and use the oil transportation infrastructure of the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) in...

What's Happening Patients within Kenya's hospitals are facing trouble as a strike from the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has hit the two week mark, beginning on March 14th. Kenyan doctors are on strike for better working conditions, implementation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), posting of medical interns and medical cover. Negotiations between the government and the KMPDU...

Another Delay Kenya's police deployment to Haiti, which has already faced several months of delays, has faced yet another delay as the Kenyan government announced that they were delaying their deployment to Haiti after the Haitian Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, resigned on Monday. Kenya's Foreign Affairs Secretary, Korir Sing'oei, stated that the PM's resignation has made a "fundamental change in circumstances",...

A Potential End Kenya and Haiti have signed a security deal, a 'reciprocal arrangement', aimed at finally allowing Kenya to deploy a force of 1,000 police officers in an attempt to combat Haiti's plethora of gangs. The agreement is what the government hopes is the last qualifier it needs in order to satisfy requirements for the deployment from the Nairobi High...

What You Need to Know: Exercise ‘Justified Accord 2024’ has begun in Kenya under the guidance of the US Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) and is set to end on the 7th of March. The exercise will bring together 1,000 military personnel from 23 nations in order to “increase partner readiness for peacekeeping missions, crisis response and humanitarian assistance.”...