Day: May 25, 2024

Kenya’s President says peacekeeping forces will help quell growing gang violence in Haiti and are expected to arrive in three weeks. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, William Ruto confirmed a planning team was already in Haiti and had met local police to secure arrangements before the Kenyan troops are deployed. We’ll hear from a journalist on the ground in Haiti on what the peacekeepers can expect from local gangs.

Also in the programme: Warnings rise over the possibility of genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region. And a flowering plant last seen in the 1960s is re-introduced in Wales.

(Picture: William Ruto speaking in Washington, D.C., May 24th 2024. Picture credit: REUTERS/Ken Cedeno)