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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emmanuel Igunza and Dnica Coto

Kenya says it won't deploy police to fight gangs in Haiti until they receive training and funding

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Kenya’s government said Thursday that its police officers will not be deployed to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding are met in line with last month’s approval from the U.N Security Council to give the eastern African country command of a multinational mission to combat violent gangs in the troubled Caribbean country.

Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki told Parliament’s Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security that “unless all resources are mobilized and availed, our troops will not leave the country.”

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