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UN Extends Kenya-led Security Mission In Haiti

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The United Nations Security Council has extended a security mission led by the Kenya Police in the crime-ravaged Haiti Republic.

The authorisation was given in a unanimous resolution of the council. However, the council failed to transform it into a UN peacekeeping mission, as suggested by the Haitian government.

Haiti, located in the Caribbean Island, is ravaged by gang violence, which has claimed over 3,600 lives this year and displaced over 700,000, according to a UN report.

Police officers from Kenya, joined by security men from other countries, were deployed earlier this year to assist the Haitian National Police in fighting the gangs.

While announcing the extension of the mission until October 2, 2025, the UN Security Council expressed “deep concern about the situation in Haiti, including violence, criminal activities and mass displacement.”

Last week, President William Ruto pledged to deploy additional officers by January 2025 to join the 400 officers already there.

Last Saturday, Guinea offered to contribute 650 police officers to the mission. Jamaica had alsopromised more deployment in addition to the 24 soldiers and police officers it already volunteered.

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