(25 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port-au-Prince, Haiti – 25 June 2024
1. Various of Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, Monica Juma, former Kenyan Foreign Minister, and a group of Kenyan officials at a press briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Garry Conille, Prime Minister of Haiti:
“The country is going through very difficult times, but we are already committed to resolving the issues.”
3. Conille speaking at podium
4. SOUNDBITE (Haitian Creole) Garry Conille, Prime Minister of Haiti:
“(gangs) First they need to lay down their weapons and respect the authority of the state, then we will see how it goes.”
5. Conille and Juma at news briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Monica Juma, National security advisor to Kenya’s president, William Ruto:
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“So, we stand united in our commitment to support the Haitian national police, to restore public order and security. To build bridges between our people and our nations.”
7. Briefing
8. Juma waving
9. Various of Conille, Juma, and Kenyan officials at press briefing
STORYLINE:
Haiti’s Prime Minister held a press briefing in Port-au-Prince Tuesday following the arrival earlier in the day of the first contingent of Kenyan police officers to Haiti.
Prime Minister Garry Conille thanked the East African country for its solidarity, noting that gangs have vandalized homes and hospitals and set libraries on fire, making Haiti “unlivable.”
Standing alongside a small group of Kenyan officers, Conille said the Haitian government is "committed to resolving the issues."
When asked about comments made by a gang leader, Jimmy Cherizier, aka Barbecue, that he would be willing to negotiate with the government, but the gangs would have to lay down their weapons first and “respect the authority of the state.”
The Prime Minister said that the Kenyan Police would be deployed in the next couple of days but did not provide details about their first mission.
Conille was accompanied by Monica Juma, Kenya’s former minister of foreign affairs who now serves as President William Ruto’s national security advisor.
She said the Kenyans "stand united in our commitment to support the Haitian national police."
Juma saluted the press and the authorities with “Hakuna Matata,” loosely translated from Swahili, as “there are no troubles or worries.”
The Kenyans are the first U.N.-backed contingent of foreign police to arrive in Haiti, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.
They will face violent gangs that control 80% of Haiti’s capital and have left more than 580,00 people across the country as they pillage neighborhoods in their quest to control more territory. Gangs also have killed several thousand people in recent years.
AP Video shot by Pierre Luxama
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