Kenya canceled its security mission in Haiti
Following the resignation of the Prime Minister of Haiti and the crisis in this country, Kenya stopped implementing its security mission in this country. |
report Mehr News Agency, citing Reuters, a Kenyan Foreign Ministry official announced that Kenya’s plan to deploy police officers to Haiti as part of a multinational security mission has been postponed.
Abraham Korir Singh Ooi, the chief secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya, announced on Wednesday in a media gathering that this decision was made due to the resignation of the Haitian Prime Minister.
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The Kenyan official emphasized that the facilitation of this mission requires the presence of a government in Haiti. There must be an authority that can be the basis for the deployment of a police force that has constitutional powers in Haiti.
Kenya agreed last October to lead a UN-backed mission to fight criminal gangs and militias in Haiti with 1,000 police officers. . A court in Haiti declared this measure unconstitutional in January, but Kenyan President William Ruto promised that the plan would be implemented regardless.
Following the internal conflicts and riots in Haiti, the government officials of this country announced on Tuesday that Ariel Henry, the Prime Minister of this country, who has been out of Haiti for a few weeks and now He is based in America, he has resigned.