A leader of a powerful gang in Haiti is injured in a police shootout ...
Oct 15, 2024 · PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A leader of one of Haiti’s most powerful gangs was injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police in their first major incursion into gang-controlled territory since a U.N.-backed mission began earlier this year, police said Tuesday.
As Kenyan Police Force Deploys in Haiti, Gang Violence Shifts
Aug 11, 2024 · Sidestepping Deployed Kenyan Forces, Haiti Gangs Continue Reign of Terror. Weeks after an international police force began arriving to take on gangs, armed groups are redirecting their campaign...
Why Kenya volunteered to lead UN-approved forces to Haiti
Oct 3, 2023 · The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved the deployment of international forces led by Kenya to curb escalating gang violence in Haiti. The Caribbean country of more than 11...
Kenya’s Police Battle Haitian Gangs While Understaffed and …
Oct 9, 2024 · They Flew 7,000 Miles to Fight Haiti’s Gangs. The Gangs Are on Top. Hundreds of Kenyan police officers are in Port-au-Prince, trying to take the capital back from gangs, but financing and ...
Kenyan officials arrive in Haiti ahead of planned security mission ...
May 21, 2024 · CNN — A delegation of Kenyan “command staff” has arrived in Haiti, according to a law enforcement source in the country, ahead of the long-delayed arrival of a Kenyan-led multinational security...
Kenya's government puts deployment of police to Haiti on hold …
Mar 12, 2024 · Kenya and Haiti signed agreements Friday, March 1, 2024 to try to salvage a plan for the African country to deploy 1,000 police officers to the troubled Caribbean nation to help combat gang violence that has surged to unprecedented levels.
Haitians hold their breath as newly arrived Kenyan police force ...
Police from Kenya stand at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport after landing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived nearly two years after the Caribbean country requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.
Why Foreign Officers Are Policing Haiti - The New York Times
Jul 9, 2024 · About 400 Kenyan officers have deployed to Haiti as part of the first wave of a multinational contingent tasked with trying to restore order in the gang-plagued Caribbean nation.
Kenyan police arrival in Haiti delayed, Kenya's President Ruto …
NAIROBI, May 23 (Reuters) - The deployment of the first Kenyan police officers to Haiti to lead an international anti-gang force has been delayed after a planned flight from Nairobi was postponed...
Why are Kenyan forces set to intervene in Haiti and how is the US ...
May 22, 2024 · The planned deployment of police to Haiti – a first for the East African country outside the continent – has sparked fierce debates in Kenya’s Parliament and in its courts.