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Ian Wafula
Africa security correspondent, BBC News, Nairobi
South Africa's electoral body has fired an official it accuses of leaking the electoral candidate lists of two major political parties. A top civil servant in Kenya's ministry of foreign affairs has told the BBC that the planned deployment of police to Haiti is now on hold following the announcement by Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry that he would be stepping down.
Investigations found that the employee downloaded the candidate lists of several political parties, Sy Mamabolo, the Chief Electoral Officer of the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), told broadcaster Newzroom Afrika on Tuesday. Korir Sing’oei, principal secretary for foreign affairs, said without a political
Last Friday, the candidate lists of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and ex-President Jacob Zuma's newly-formed party uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) were leaked on social media, merely hours after the parties submitted them to the IEC. administration in Haiti there was no anchor on which the deployment can rest.
The leak angered the MK party, which has threatened to take legal action against the electoral body. Mr Sing’oei
President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday said he was satisfied with IEC's explanation on the leak and has "confidence in the IEC's ability to deal with all matters that have to do with elections". added that Kenya will wait for the installation of a new constitutional
Mr Mamabolo says a forensic analysis is under way to establish the ex-employee's motive, but maintains that the incident does not undermine IEC's credibility to hold the country's upcoming May elections. authority before further decisions are made.
Last year, Kenya pledged to deploy around 1,000 police officers to Haiti as part of an international force in a bid to combat the gang violence.
The deployment had been held up in the courts but earlier this month it seemed as if all the legal hurdles had been cleared.
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