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UN warns of increasing gang violence in Haiti amid calls for Kenya-led peace mission

A protester holds up a machete as a symbol of self-defence against gangs, during a protest against gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 25 Aug. 2023. © Odelyn Joseph / AP

Kenyan court on Tuesday extended an order barring the government from deploying hundreds of police officers to Haiti on a UN-backed mission aiming to pacify the troubled Caribbean nation.

This as the head of the UN Office in Haiti delivered a bleak report on the situation and underlined the “enormous significance” of the Council’s recent resolution authorising the deployment of a multinational support mission to assist the national police, to be lead by Kenyans.

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