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Kenya, Haiti sign ‘reciprocal’ agreement on police deployment: Ruto

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry, second from left, after giving a public lecture at the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday March 1, 2024 [Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo]

Kenya and Haiti have signed a “reciprocal” agreement to deploy police from the East African country to lead a United Nations-backed law and order mission in the gang-riven Caribbean nation, Kenyan President William Ruto has said.

Ruto said on Friday that he and Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry had “discussed the next steps to enable the fast-tracking of the deployment”, but it was not immediately clear whether the agreement would counter a court ruling in January that branded the deployment “unconstitutional”.

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