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The announcement from the Bahamas' foreign ministry follows a request on Monday from U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Haiti's neighbors join forces with Kenya, which last week said it was willing to send 1,000 police officers to Haiti to help stem gang violence. "The Bahamas has committed 150 persons to support the multi-national force once authorized by the United Nations Security Council," the ministry said in a statement.

Kenya Considering Leading a Multinational Force in Haiti

State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said Monday that he does not believe that the abduction of an American nurse and her child from a Christian education ministry in Haiti last Thursday is connected to the department’s issuance of a Level 4 Travel Advisory that same day telling Americans to leave for the Caribbean nation soon as possible.

Haiti has welcomed "with great interest" a Kenyan offer to lead a 1,000-strong multinational force to bolster security in the country that has been wracked by gang violence.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday welcomed Kenya's readiness to lead an international force to help Haiti's police combat gang violence and encouraged other countries - particularly from Haiti's region - to join the effort. Kenya was ready to deploy 1,000 police officers to help train and assist Haiti's police "restore normalcy in the country and protect strategic installations," Kenya's Foreign Minister Alfred Mutua said in a statement on Satu...

“We greatly appreciate the support and solidarity of our brothers and sisters from Africa, the motherland.”

Three former members of the US Army claim they were told to 'keep your mouth shut' after a frightening encounter with a UFO.

From the blog of Yuval Krausz at The Times of Israel

The United States remains active in its search for a country to head a multinational force in troubled Haiti, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday, without offering Washington's lead."We're in very active conversations with countries in the region and beyond about such a force and we're in active conversations, of course, at the United Nations about what it might do to give a force the proper imprimatur from the international community," Blinken told reporters...