On Monday, the first group of U.N. backed Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of efforts to restore order to the country.
Haiti’s government collapsed after the 2021 assassination of President Moïse. Since then the island has been consumed by violence between warring factions who have attempted to seize control in the power vacuum that followed the collapse of the government.
The several hundred Kenyan police who have arrived in the country are to lead international efforts to restore order to the country, and ensure it is able to stabilize and reform its government. The Kenyans will be joined by police and soldiers from the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Chad and Jamaica.
The intervention has been significantly delayed by debates over training and funding, and also by a court order which prevented Kenya from deploying the police until such time as a treaty could be signed with Haiti’s provisional government.
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