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A Kenya police officer fires a tear gas canister during a demonstration against tax hikes as members of the Parliament vote for the Finance Bill 2024 in downtown Nairobi, on June 20, 2024. Another 200 Kenyan police officers have left for Haiti under a UN-backed mission to try to quell rampant gang violence in the troubled Caribbean nation, senior police officers said Tuesday.
Another senior police source confirmed to AFP that the officers had left on Monday night, travelling by chartered plane, adding: “More will be departing soon until we have all the 1,000.”The East African nation is leading a force expected to number a total of some 2,500 personnel. The forces deployed had been “received warmly”, and were “all safe and ready to discharge their clear and specific mandate,” it said.
The United States had been eagerly seeking a country to lead the mission and is supplying funding and logistical support.
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