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fullscreen Kenyan President William Ruto in the UN General Assembly. Photo: Frank Franklin ii/AP/TT
Kenya hopes a promised force of military and police will be in place in Haiti in January. Kenyan President William Ruto said this at the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday.
Kenya has previously promised to send police and military to Haiti to get control of the criminal groups that control parts of the country and have great dominance in the capital Port-au-Prince.
So far, sufficient forces have not arrived in crisis- and misery-stricken Haiti, which has quickly worsened the situation according to international observers.
– Kenya will have deployed another contingent to reach the target of 2,500 more police officers by January 2024, Ruto said.
He stated that the delay is due to a lack of resources, logistical problems and substandard equipment.
Haiti’s interim leader Edgard Leblanc Fils did not seem pleased with the announcement. In his speech in the General Assembly, he pleaded that the UN should consider “changing the security operation into a peacekeeping operation with a UN mandate”.