(22 Jul 2024)
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Port-au-Prince – 22 July 2024
1. Vehicle transporting Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield arriving at Kenyan police force camp
2. Thomas-Greenfield exiting vehicle and being greeted by Haitian police chief Normil Rameau and others
3. Kenyan and Haitian police and others
4. Kenyan police force and others welcoming Thomas-Greenfield
5. Kenyan police force marching
6. Various of Thomas-Greenfield greeting Kenyan police force
7. Thomas-Greenfield walking across camp
8. Thomas-Greenfield entering a camp room
STORYLINE:
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations traveled to Haiti on Monday to meet leaders of the new transitional government and the Kenyan police who are the vanguard of a U.N.-backed force meant to help the country’s national police curb widespread gang violence.
A senior U.S. administration official said Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s one-day visit also seeks to encourage action on Haiti’s humanitarian crisis and political reform leading to democratic elections in 2026.
The ambassador will make two major announcements related to Haiti’s security and humanitarian crises, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of the visit.
Gangs have grown in power since the July 7, 2021, assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and are now estimated to control up to 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and have spread into surrounding areas.
The surge in killings, rapes and kidnappings has led to a violent uprising by civilian vigilante groups.
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