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Kenya signs deal in attempt to rescue plan for deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti

Ariel Henry, the prime minister of Haiti, and William Ruto, the president of Kenya, in Nairobi on 29 February 2024.
Ariel Henry, the prime minister of Haiti, and William Ruto, the president of Kenya, in Nairobi on 29 February 2024. Photograph: Daniel Irungu/EPA

Kenya and Haiti have a security deal to try to salvage a plan for Nairobi to deploy 1,000 police officers to the troubled Caribbean nation to help combat gang violence that has surged to unprecedented levels.

Kenya agreed in October to lead a UN-authorized international police force to Haiti, but the Kenyan high court in January ruled the plan unconstitutional, in part because of a lack of reciprocal agreements between the two countries.

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