[Baltimore Sun] The World Daily Brief: Kenyan-led peacekeeping force in Haiti, Putin fires naval commander, Israeli airstrikes
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Haiti
The Kenyan-led peacekeeping force that outgoing PM Henry negotiated to try to quell the violence in Haiti is pausing its deployment there…because of the escalation of violence in Haiti after Henry agreed to resign. READ MORE
The peacekeepers will only deploy after Haiti has a new government in place. That seemed like a distant hope amidst this week’s chaos, but emerging reports suggest ongoing discussions could result in a solution soon. READ MORE
Some of Haiti’s top political elite will meet privately over the next few days to try to form a transition council as delegates from other countries – including the U.S., Canada, France, and Caribbean countries – meet in Jamaica for similar talks. READ MORE
Russia and Ukraine
Pres. Putin quietly fired his top naval commander, Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov, after a series of embarrassing naval strikes on the Black Sea Fleet he commanded. READ MORE
Ukraine estimates that it has destroyed around one-third of the Fleet’s ~80 ships to date, including 15 in the last six months. As the NYT noted, those were “surprising victories considering that Ukraine does not have a traditional navy” and has relied on sea drones to strike Russian vessels lately. READ MORE
The U.S. announced a plan to send another $300 million in weapons to Ukraine using savings scrounged from existing budgets since new funding for Ukraine is stalled in Congress. U.S. officials described this transfer as a stopgap measure that would only hold Russia off for a few weeks. READ MORE
Separately, Leonid Volkov, Alexey Navalny’s former chief of staff, was viciously attacked with tear gas and a hammer in his car as it pulled up to his house in Vilnius, Lithuania. He survived with injuries, but the attack was a reminder that Russia’s exiled opposition figures aren’t safe abroad. Just before the attack, an interviewer asked Volkov about the biggest risks for Navalny’s organization today and Volkov replied: “The key risk is that we will all be killed.” READ MORE
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The World Daily Brief for March 9: Plan for Gaza floating pier; mass abductions in Nigeria; Haiti state of emergency extended
Israel and Gaza
Israeli jets carried out airstrikes on the Bekaa Valley deep inside Lebanon for a second consecutive day yesterday, killing two Hezbollah members. Israel said it was retaliating against a barrage of over 100 Hezbollah rockets launched towards northern Israel earlier in the day – which Hezbollah said was a retaliation against Israel’s shelling of Bekaa on Monday. READ MORE
Meanwhile, the BBC published an insightful explainer about U.S. plans to build a pier to facilitate aid shipments to Gaza by sea. See below. READ MORE
Sudan
Sudan’s army reported that it recaptured control of the national broadcasting headquarters in Omdurman (near Khartoum) from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) yesterday. READ MORE
The RSF has had the upper hand in fighting recently and still controls most of Omdurman. This would be the army’s biggest victory in almost a year. READ MORE
Sahel
A senior U.S. delegation – including AFRICOM commander Gen. Michael Langley and the State Department’s top official for Africa, Molly Phee – visited Niamey for talks with the junta that took over last summer. They probably discussed the future of the U.S. drone base in Niger, which still hosts 1,000 U.S. troops and cost $100 million to build. READ MORE
How the US military plans to construct a pier and get food into Gaza (BBC)
US Army vessels set sail on Saturday and Monday to take equipment to the Mediterranean. According to the Pentagon, the plan includes two main components which need to be assembled – a big floating dock made up of steel segments and a two-lane, 1,800ft (548m) causeway and pier.
The causeway will be composed of interconnected, 40ft (12m) steel pieces linked together and attached to the shore.
Cargo ships deliver supplies to the dock and the aid is then offloaded onto a range of barges and smaller vessels – known as logistics support vessels, or LSVs – and taken to the pier.
From there, vehicles will drive the supplies onto land and into Gaza. READ MORE
The World Daily Brief is composed daily by former CIA and Intelligence officers.
Armstrong Williams (www.armstrongwilliams.com; @arightside) is a political analyst, syndicated columnist and owner of the broadcasting company, Howard Stirk Holdings. He is also part owner of The Baltimore Sun. This column is part of a weekly series written from “The Owner’s Box.”
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