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‘Illegal and invalid’: Kenya court halts deployment of police to Haiti

A woman walks past burning tires set on fire by protesters to call attention to the country's insecurity and demanding the resignation of the prime minister, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 18, 2024 [Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo]

A Kenyan court on Friday ruled against the government’s plan to deploy police to Haiti to lead a UN-backed multinational mission aimed at restoring peace and security in the Caribbean nation struggling with gang violence.

On Friday, judge Enock Chacha Mwita ruled that “any decision by any state organ or state officer to deploy police officers to Haiti… contravenes the constitution and the law and is therefore unconstitutional, illegal and invalid”.

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