KENYA DEPLOYS POLICE TO FIGHT HAITI GANG CRISIS
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Senior police officers announced on Tuesday that an additional 200 Kenyan law enforcement officers had departed for Haiti as part of a UN-backed operation to address the widespread gang violence in the unstable Caribbean country.
One senior official told AFP, “We have 200 police officers who left last night; they should land in their destination of Haiti this morning.”
“They’re coming to join their colleagues who’ve already arrived on site.
A first batch of about 400 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti in June, with the East African nation leading a force expected to number a total of some 2,500 personnel.
“More will be departing soon until we have all the 1,000,” a second Kenyan police officer said.
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Additional nations, primarily in Africa and the Caribbean, are supporting a mission that is approved by the UN but is not run by it.
The international security force headed by Kenya was approved by the UN Security Council last year, but it was delayed for months by legal obstacles in Nairobi and political unrest following the departure of former Haitian prime minister Ariel Henry.
For many years, the impoverished nation of Haiti has been under the influence of violent gangs that currently possess 80 percent of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, as well as important highways.
When armed groups launched coordinated attacks on Port-au-Prince at the end of February, claiming they wanted to remove Henry—who subsequently resigned—the situation drastically deteriorated.
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