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Kenya Reportedly Sends Over 160 Additional Police Officers to Haiti to Fight Criminal Gangs
Kenya Reportedly Sends Over 160 Additional Police Officers to Haiti to Fight Criminal Gangs
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Kenya sent an additional 168 police officers to Haiti to fight criminal gangs against the background of US President Donald Trump's 90-day... 07.02.2025, Sputnik Africa
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In January, Kenyan Interior and National Administration Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said that the country had sent an additional 217 police officers to Haiti to enforce the peacekeepers. The total number of Kenyan police officers within the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti reached 800, the Star reported. Now the Kenya-led Multinational Security Mission in Haiti faces the US suspension of funds and needs to operate while over $13 million are frozen on Trump's order, the Star reported. Late in June 2024, the UN-sanctioned multinational mission of 2,500 people started deployment in Haiti. Kenyan police officers became the basis of the mission. The goal of the mission is to protect the social and governmental facilities. Benin, Chad, Bahamas, Jamaica, Barbados, Suriname, and Bangladesh also sent their units. Kenyan President William Ruto said that the deployment would have finished by January 2025. In recent years, Haiti has been enduring a severe crisis with political, economic, and humanitarian challenges. The crisis aggravated after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021. More than 700,000 people, including children, were forced to leave their homes in Haiti due to the humanitarian crisis and gang violence, according to the September report by the International Organization for Migration.
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Kenya Reportedly Sends Over 160 Additional Police Officers to Haiti to Fight Criminal Gangs
08:53 07.02.2025 (Updated: 10:52 07.02.2025) MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Kenya sent an additional 168 police officers to Haiti to fight criminal gangs against the background of US President Donald Trump's 90-day foreign aid suspension, the Star news portal reported on Thursday.
In January, Kenyan Interior and National Administration Minister Kipchumba Murkomen said that the country had sent an additional 217 police officers to Haiti to enforce the peacekeepers.
The total number of
Kenyan police officers within the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti reached 800, the Star reported.
Now the Kenya-led Multinational Security Mission in Haiti faces the US suspension of funds and needs to operate while over $13 million are frozen on
Trump's order, the Star reported.
Late in June 2024, the UN-sanctioned multinational mission of 2,500 people started deployment in Haiti. Kenyan police officers became the basis of the mission. The goal of the mission is to protect the social and governmental facilities. Benin, Chad, Bahamas, Jamaica, Barbados, Suriname, and Bangladesh also sent their units. Kenyan President
William Ruto said that the deployment would have finished by January 2025.
In recent years, Haiti has been enduring a severe crisis with political, economic, and humanitarian challenges. The crisis aggravated after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021. More than 700,000 people, including children, were forced to leave their homes in Haiti due to the humanitarian crisis and gang violence, according to the September report by the International Organization for Migration.
