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Kenya high court rules against plan to deploy hundreds of police to Haiti

Haitian police in the back of a pickup truck
Haitian police patrol downtown Port-au-Prince this week. The country is in the grip of rampant gang violence and lawlessness. Photograph: Odelyn Joseph/AP

Kenya’s high court has ruled against a government plan to deploy hundreds of police to Haiti to lead a UN-backed multinational mission to fight escalating gang violence in the Caribbean country.

Enock Chacha Mwita, the judge who issued the ruling, said: “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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