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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s high court on Friday blocked the U.N.-backed deployment of Kenyan police officers to Haiti to help the Caribbean country bring gang violence under control. Judge Chacha Mwita said Kenya’s National Security Council, which is led by the president, does not have the authority to deploy regular police outside the country. […]
Kenya's high court on Friday barred the UN-backed deployment of Kenyan police officers to Haiti to help bolster the Caribbean country bring gang violence under control
The court upheld arguments presented by opponents of the decision, who called the mission unconstitutional
In Haiti, as the number of murders soar and kidnappings rise, even the police are fleeing. With no elected president in office and a prime minister widely seen as illegitimate, calls for the government’s ouster are now being heard from an unlikely source: a brigade of armed officers ostensibly responsible for protecting environmentally sensitive areas. Armed uniformed members of the brigade clashed with government forces in northern Haiti this week, heightening tensions in an already volatile na
Haitians urgently need a rights-based international response amid a surge in killings and kidnappings, rampant sexual violence, and a severe food crisis, Tirana Hassan, executive director at Human Rights Watch, said today in remarks delivered at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Haiti.