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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent and Etienne Côté-Paluck in Port-au-Prince

Haitians wary as Kenyan police arrive on latest US-backed mission

Kenyan police in full gear on tarmac
Kenyan police arriving at the airport at Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, the latest in a long history of foreign interventions. Photograph: Marckinson Pierre/AP

Hundreds of Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti as part of a US-backed security intervention aiming to rescue the Caribbean country from a criminal insurrection that toppled the prime minister and brought death and chaos to the streets.

About 400 members of the Kenya-led multinational police operation stepped off a Kenyan Airways plane at Port-au-Prince’s international airport on Tuesday. The US president, Joe Biden, hailed their arrival as the start of “an effort that will bring much-needed relief to Haitians”.

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