Kenya pauses police deployment to Haiti after PM’s resignation • FRANCE 24 English

It’s the latest chapter in the roller coaster Saga Kenya has said it will not send its security Force to Haiti until a new government has been formed Kenya’s president William Ruto had initially made a deal to send a thousand police officers to the Caribbean Nation to help

Tackle violence over there but that deal was made with Haiti’s prime minister Ariel Henry who on Monday said he would resign earlier today we spoke to an expert who said that the mission will still go ahead but just later than expected that was agreement between you know States as opposed to individuals so

We expect that uh the deployment will proceed at some point but to expect a transition first before deployment I think is going to be uh a Wishful thought in part because the circumstances of the ground are not even uh uh good enough to allow for a peaceful transition and that is why as

Some kind of a multinational Force that is neutral is going to be needed so when did this whole idea of sending Kenyan police officers to the other side of the world to Haiti to help tackle gang violence and insecurity over there begin well hai’s government appealed for international support two years ago and

Then in July last year Kenya’s president William Ruto offered his support by sending a thousand Kenyan police officers to the Caribbean country and that offer was approved by the UN Security Council a few months later in October but the mission has been hugely criticized by a wide number of

Kenyans by the opposition and by human rights groups

Kenya has decided to pause its deployment of 1,000 police officers to lead an international security mission in Haiti following Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s announcement that he would tender his resignation, a senior Kenyan official said on Tuesday. FRANCE 24’s Olivia Bizot reports from Kenya.
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5 comments

  2. Im confused by why Kenya is the country sending troops. Shouldnt the troops be used for their own safety or the securing the boarder of one of their neighboring african country…

  3. Ruto would never call off rhe deployment, it was done by the security council. He doesn't care if he put his officers in danger as long as he pleases his masters.

  4. This dude doesn't know what he is talking about. If the new gov't comes in and says we don't want the Kenyan police here, the mission is done.It's that simple

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