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...Since president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in July 2021, a power vacuum has engulfed the nation which dozens of gangs have filled, extorting locals and kidnapping for ransom....
...The vote comes during a dire security situation in Haiti, where as many as 200 gangs control swaths of cities and regularly kidnap for ransom....
...His weapon: the organisation of a mass jailbreak of 3,800 prisoners while Prime Minister Ariel Henry was in Kenya pleading for security assistance to bring order to his state....
...A delegation from Kenya met Haitian officials last month as the African nation weighs leading a multinational force....
...They impose ransoms on all kinds of activities. They kidnap. And they are linked also to money laundering. They are linked to the illegal trafficking of small weapons....
...And so it will be a relief for countries like Kenya. Marc FilippinoHarry Dempsey is the FT’s commodities correspondent....
...Other participants included Ukraine, Estonia, Nigeria, Kenya, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland and the EU....
...Whereas Jamaica grew some 1 per cent annually this decade, its African best-in-class peers, both those with GDP per capita below Jamaica — Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia — and with GDP per capita above Jamaica...
...In 2013 it saw off Kenya, Holland, Namibia and other sides with decades more international experience, to qualify for cricket’s most prestigious tournament....
...This applies not just to Nigeria but on the other side of the continent in Kenya, too, where at least 10 people were killed in bomb attacks on Friday....
...Mr Hassan was also linked to the 2008 capture of the Saudi-owned Sirius Star oil supertanker, released for a reported ransom of $3m....
...His company, formed this year, will put armed guards on board ships to ward off Somali pirates who have previously commandeered vessels and demanded millions in ransom pay-offs....
...Property prices in Eastleigh – the long-time centre of Kenya’s Somali community – reportedly doubled as some $100m entered the market....
...A spate of fatal kidnappings along Kenya’s holiday coast late last year prompted travel warnings that threatened Kenya’s tourism industry, a crucial source of foreign exchange....
...In addition, a proportion of piracy ransoms, worth up to $400m a year, has provided seed money for transport start-ups, says Guleid....
...Ships’ crews have been held for months at a time, eliciting million-dollar ransom payments....
...Nowadays kidnap and ransom of staff is a significant worry. Piracy of property for ransom is another big concern....
...Two beachside kidnappings of tourists in Kenya in as many months and the murder of a Briton have raised concerns that pirates are expanding their activities....
...“The guys who brought the ransom in were from a security company based in Kenya,” said the diplomat, who said the cash was intended to release two vessels that were held by Somali pirates according to the...
...One of them, al-Ansar wants to set up an Islamist state inside Somalia and is fomenting attacks in neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia....
...“Osama’s death can only be positive for Kenya, but we need to have a stable government in Somalia,” Raila Odinga, Kenya’s prime minister, told Reuters....
...Kenya, which has conducted more trials of Somali pirates than any other country, in September withdrew from an agreement to do so....
...When Somali pirates ransom a ship, they demand that the ransom money be parachuted to them in dollars. As the Wall Street Journal has put it, “In the black market, the dollar still rules.”...
...Welcome to Kenya’s latest criminal fad. Even as national crime levels have steadily dropped over the past year, according to police statistics, abductions for ransom have been rising exponentially....
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