(25 Jun 2024)
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Port-au-Prince – 25 June 2024
1. Continuous shot of police officers exiting Kenya Air plane, some at the start carrying a large flag
STORYLINE:
The first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday.
Their arrival is taking place nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.
A couple hundred police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
The main international airport reopened in late May after gang violence forced it to close for nearly three months.
It wasn’t immediately known what the Kenyans’ first assignment would be, but they will face violent gangs that control 80% of Haiti’s capital and have left more than 580,000 people across the country homeless as they pillage neighborhoods in their quest to control more territory.
The Kenyans’ arrival marks the fourth major foreign military intervention in Haiti.
While some Haitians welcome their arrival, others view the force with caution, given that the previous intervention — the U.N.’s 2004-2017 peacekeeping mission — was marred by allegations of sexual assault and the introduction of cholera.
The Kenyans’ deployment comes nearly four months after gangs launched coordinated attacks targeting key government infrastructure in Haiti’s capital and beyond.
They seized control of more than two dozen police stations, fired on the main international airport and stormed Haiti’s two biggest prisons, releasing more than 4,000 inmates.
AP video by Pierre Luxama
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