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10/07/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Haiti asks for foreign troops

UK proposes new migration law and international aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres, suspend work in parts of Tigray

Following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, Haiti requests troops from both the United Nations and the United States to protect key infrastructure.

Britain’s new immigration law and the international aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres, suspends work in parts of Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region.


Joining Celia Hatton discuss these and other issues are Tony Connelly, Europe editor for RTE -Ireland's national television and radio broadcaster; and Michela Wrong, journalist and author, specialising in Africa.

(Photo: A Haitian man shows his passport outside the U.S. Embassy after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 9, 2021. CREDIT: REUTERS/Estailove St-Val)

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