Two hundred Kenai police officers arrived at Haiti on Thursday and joined the mission to fight a gang in the country to participate in a distressed Caribbean country to join the United Nations supported mission.
More than 600 Kenyan officers were already deployed as a multinational force of police officers and soldiers from other countries in Haiti – including Jamaica, Guatemala and Al Salvador – who fight the violet gang in the capital’s control in the capital’s control Haiti helps the police -U -prince.
Haiti’s United Nations specialist William O’Neel told Associated Press on Thursday, “Haitian National Police has been dropped from gangs.”
The United Nations Mission plays an important role in establishing security in Haiti, he said.
The arrival of newly deployed police officers from Kenya was put on suspicion earlier this week, when US President Donald Trump announced a freeze on US foreign aid, including $ 13.3 million for the United Nations Mission in Haiti. .
However, the US State Department announced that it had approved exemption for $ 40.7 million in foreign missions and police in foreign aid for police. The State Department said that it recently gave the mission and police “very important heavy armored equipment”.
Commander Godfrey Otunge, the force of the United Nations Mission in Haiti, said in a statement on Wednesday that the frozen funds are less than 3% of the ongoing assistance in the mission. Both the state and the defense departments are “actively engaged” in the mission, said Otunga.
“I want to assure everyone, especially on the mission track of Haiti,” said the force commander.
According to Otunga, the US and other partners are contributing to logistics, financial and equipment support for the country high -liability missions.
“Stable and estimated penalty for [mission] All states need to contribute to those people in the region, “O’Neel, Haiti’s United Nations expert.”
The United Nations Mission -led UN mission has to face a difficult task in a country that could not fully recover from the devastation earthquake in 2010 and is now with a President or Parliament. Haiti is ruled by a transitional body, in which gangs and extreme violence and poverty faces heavy challenges. Last year, about 6,000 people were killed in gang violence in the country.
US State Secretary Marco Rubio spoke with Kenai President William Ruto on Thursday and thanked him for the leadership of the country in Haiti.
Last year, about 1 million people in Haiti fled from their homes due to gang violence, a figure that the French news agency France Press report was three times higher than the previous year.
Some information for this story can be found from Associated Press and Egans France Press.