Another 217 Kenyan police officers off to Haiti

The Mountain Journal

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Another security officers from Kenya has been ferried to Haiti in a peace keeping mission.

Two hundreds and seventeen officers have been sent to the South American nation, to bolster a multinational force seeking to restore order to the violence-ridden Caribbean island.

Criminal gangs still control some 85 percent of the capital Port-au-Prince, the United Nations estimates, despite the deployment last June of the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) under UN auspices.

Interior and National Coordination Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen and Police IG Douglas Kanja saw off the police officers at the JKIA.

The CS said the Kenya-led mission has made tremendous progress in reducing gang violence, earning praise across the globe, including from both the outgoing and incoming US administrations.