They are being deployed to the Caribbean country to provide back-up to an understaffed international security mission.
Kenya’s interior minister says the east African nation has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a Kenya-led multinational force to curb gang violence.
Kenya said Saturday it was sending another 217 police officers to Haiti to bolster a multinational force seeking to restore order to the violence-ridden Caribbean island. "The 217 officers will reinforce the first batch of 400 officers who were deployed last year to the Caribbean nation to restore peace,
Armed gangs maintain control of most of the capital Port-au-Prince following an outbreak ... The Haitian government, backed by the US and by other Caribbean nations, has also been calling for ...
Both countries share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Okoth said that the number of displacement sites in Port-au-Prince has risen from 73 to 108 over the last year. The outgoing administration ...
Kenyan President William Ruto said the plan is eventually to send 2,500 police officers to Haiti under the UN-backed mission.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The young boy wore a suit and bow tie to his stepfather’s funeral on Saturday, where he demanded a handkerchief and wiped tears off his mother’s face as they buried Marckendy Natoux, one of two journalists killed by gangs in Haiti.