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Al Jazeera
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Shola Lawal

Why are Kenyan forces set to intervene in Haiti and how is the US involved?

Kenyan police and paramilitary forces will be part of a planned mission to tackle gang violence in Haiti [File: Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]

Kenyan President William Ruto is in the United States for a three-day state visit in the first such trip for an African leader since 2008.

When Ruto meets his counterpart Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday, at the top of their agenda will be a multinational security intervention in the troubled Caribbean nation of Haiti – a mission that Kenya is leading and Washington is backing.

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