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The Guardian - US
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Caroline Kimeu in Nairobi and Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent

‘It’s mission impossible’: fear grows in Kenya over plan to deploy police to Haiti

Kenya police officers
Kenya police patrol the streets of Nairobi, Kenya, on 12 March. Photograph: Brian Inganga/AP

Haiti’s raging gang insurrection has prompted growing concern in Kenya over plans to deploy hundreds of paramilitary police officers from the East African country on a UN-backed multinational mission to counter the violence.

“If they come back in body bags, what will [Kenya’s president, William Ruto] tell the nation?” said Ekuru Aukot, leader of the opposition Thirdway Alliance, who last year filed a legal challenge against the deployment.

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