HAITI'S CRISIS DEEPENS DESPITE KENYAN-LED MISSION

On 25 June 2024, the first group of Kenya's police arrived in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on a UN-authorised and US-backed Multinational Security Support Mission. More police reinforcements from Kenya and other countries were allegedly supposed to assist Haitian police in quelling surging gang violence in the predominantly Black Caribbean country.

Despite widespread objection back in Kenya, as well as from Haitians, the Kenyan police force has operated in Haiti for more than six months without progress.

Now, a 13 January joint investigation by The New Humanitarian (@newhumanitarian on X) and Kenya's Nation newspaper (@nationafrica on X) reveals Haiti is worse off today than a year ago, and that the Kenyan police bit off way more than they could chew when Kenyan President William Ruto hastily agreed to dispatch his fellow citizens.

Sources:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1158781

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/23/un-publishes-new-death-toll-of-two-hundred-seven-for-recent-massacre-in-haitis-capital

https://www.president.go.ke/kenya-and-haiti-sign-agreement-on-the-deployment-of-1000-police-officers/

https://www.kenyans.co.ke/news/103673-new-report-shows-kenya-police-underfunded

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/25/kenyan-police-contingent-arrives-in-haiti-as-protests-roil-nairobi

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/01/13/haiti-depth-why-kenya-led-security-mission-floundering