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In what is being hailed as an historic first, the UN Security Council on Monday authorized the deployment of an international security force to help Haiti’s national police quell surging gang violence and restore security across the strife-torn Caribbean nation.

UN Security Council approves troop deployment, months after Kenya proposed sending 1,000 officers to Haiti.

Other nations such as Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Suriname, Belize, Span, Senegal, Bahamas and Mongolia have signaled sending troops.

In what is being hailed as an historic first, the UN Security Council on Monday authorized the deployment of an international police security force to help Haiti’s national police quell surging gang violence and restore security across the strife-torn Caribbean nation.

President Joe Biden thanked his Kenyan counterpart in a phone call on Tuesday for agreeing to lead a multinational mission to intervene in Haiti, a day after the United Nations Security Council voted to endorse the effort.

The United Nations Security Council approved a Kenyan-led mission aiming to bring stability to Haiti.

He says Kenya is sending officers to Haiti even before it properly caters for their welfare.

Kenya will lead the mission that will deploy to Haiti for one year, according to the resolution approved by 13 council members. China and Russia abstained from the vote.

Nearly a year after Haiti’s caretaker government requested the immediate deployment of an outside armed force to help the country’s ill-equipped and outgunned police take on deadly gangs, the United

The lobby group's opposition comes at a time when the UN Security Council is preparing to vote on Kenya’s mission to Haiti.