William Ruto ‘confident’ in police deploying to Haiti — BBC Africa

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The Kenya gov­ern­ment will send close to 1,000 peace­keep­ing police offi­cers under a UN mis­sion to Haiti, aimed at help­ing the coun­try’s tran­si­tion­al author­i­ties restore order.

For weeks, gangs in Haiti had been car­ry­ing out dead­ly co-ordi­nat­ed attacks, demand­ing the res­ig­na­tion of the then Prime Min­is­ter Ariel Hen­ry. He agreed to step down in March. But the gangs have cap­i­talised on the pow­er vac­u­um left by Mr Hen­ry’s exit and expand­ed their con­trol over large swathes of the country.

Kenyan Pres­i­dent William Ruto told the BBC’s Caitri­ona Per­ry that sta­bil­i­ty in Haiti is a shared responsibility.

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