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Kenya deploys 217 more police officers to join UN mission fighting gang violence in Haiti

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Kenya has deployed an additional 217 police officers to the Caribbean island nation of Haiti as part of a UN-backed multinational force to control gang violence and restore stability there. They arrived in capital Port-au-Prince on Saturday (18 January) to join the first batch of 400 officers deployed to Haiti last year, tasked with restoring […]
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Kenya’s police officers ready to deploy in violence-stricken Haiti in ‘few days, few weeks’

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Hundreds of Kenyan police officers have been training since late last year as the East African country is preparing to dispatch them as the first wave of a UN-backed multinational force aimed at stabilizing the chaos-ridden Caribbean nation of Haiti. Kenyan police will deploy to Haiti, a country of 11.6 million people, “in the next […]