Kenya has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti to provide backup to an understaffed security mission in the Caribbean country where spiralling gang violence has displaced more than a million ...
(Odelyn Joseph/The Associated Press) As Haiti continues to struggle with a surge in gangviolence, the government on Tuesday swore in Mario Andresol as the state secretary of public security.
Kenya’s interior minister says the east African nation has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a Kenya-led multinational force to curb gang violence.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles to contain rampant gangviolence, officials said Tuesday.