Zambia: 15-year prison sentences ‘shocked the world’

The 15-year prison sentences imposed this week on a gay Zambian couple are a shocking miscarriage of justice, African gay-rights activists declare. The U.S. ambassador to Zambia agreed, saying that the sentences harm the country’s international reputation and perpetuate discrimination. (more…)

Ansyen anvwaye espesyal Etazini an Ayiti a, Daniel Foote, nan yon entèvyou li bay ZoomHaitiNews, fè konnen ansyen premye minis pou ti bout Claude Joseph te gen volonte fè respekte souvrènte peyi an aprè asasina ansyen prezidan Jovenel Moïse nan dat 7 jiyè 2021.  Diplomat lan ki pa janm mete dlo nan bouch li pou pale sou koze Ayiti a aprè demisyon li nan diplomasi ameriken an. Daprè Daniel Foote,…

Daniel Foote a démoli Ariel Henry sur Twitter : Faux Premier Ministre

Daniel Foote continue de multiplier ses interventions au sujet d’Haïti après sa résignation au poste de l’envoyé spécial américain à Port-au-Prince. Il a encore une fois, épinglé le premier ministre Ariel Henry. Dans un message posté, ce jeudi 23 décembre, sur Twitter, il l’a interpellé autour du meurtre de Jovenel Moïse.  Dans ses premiers mots, il a complètement détruit le titulaire de la…

#DanielFoote reproche aux #ÉtatsUnis de soutenir "aveuglément" @DrArielHenry.- #Juno7 #J7Oct2021

L’ancien envoyé spécial de Washington en Haïti, Daniel Foote reproche à l’administration Biden de soutenir aveuglément le premier ministre Ariel Henry L’ex envoyé spécial de Washington en Haïti, l’ambassadeur Daniel Foote, lors d’une audition au Congrès, a remis en question la crédibilité du Premier ministre Ariel Henry et déclaré que les États-Unis ont tort de le soutenir. L’ambassadeur Foote a…

Dans ses premiers commentaires publics depuis sa démission, le diplomate américain. Daniel Foote a déclaré que l’administration de Joe Biden pourrait violer le droit international.   Les conditions en HAITI sont beaucoup trop dangereuses pour accueillir les milliers de personnes que l’administration de Joe Biden y envoie en masse, a déclaré jeudi au Congrès l’ancien envoyé spécial en Haïti,…

Julian Borger at The Guardian: 

The US envoy to Haiti has resigned after just two months in the role, in protest at what he called the Biden administration’s “inhumane” mass deportation of Haitian migrants and asylum seekers to what he said was a highly dangerous “collapsed state”.

Daniel Foote’s angry resignation letter is a serious blow for an administration which came to office promising a more humane approach to immigration in the wake of Donald Trump’s policy of child separation. The state department said he had given a misleading account of his resignation. A senior official said that Foote had advocated sending in US troops to impose order, and that had been rejected.

The Biden administration has been struggling to deal with a recent surge of Haitian migrants and refugees fleeing the implosion of the country’s society after the assassination in July of its president, Jovenel Moïse, triggered chaos that was then compounded by a powerful earthquake in August.

Foote, who has previously served as deputy chief of mission in Haiti and ambassador in Zambia, was appointed special envoy after Moïse’s killing, which remains unsolved.

After about 14,000 migrants gathered in an impromptu camp under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) bureau started flying hundreds out on multiple flights every day, without the opportunity for asylum appeals or hearings.