Kenya To Deploy Second Group of Police Officers to Haiti To Fight Gangs

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Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has announced that Kenya will send an additional 600 police officers to the Caribbean nation as part of a multi-national security mission to fight Haiti's violent gangs.

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00:00Haiti's Prime Minister is stepping up efforts to fight gang violence in the country.

00:05Gary Cornille says 600 new Kenyan officers will join the 400 who have been in Haiti since

00:11June.

00:12They're part of a multinational security mission fighting heavily armed gangs operating across

00:16the country.

00:18Cornille says a recent trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya is helping their response

00:23efforts.

00:25They have shown us a whole series of equipment that they have at their disposal, drones,

00:31machine guns, automatic weapons, and so many other things that they themselves have manufactured

00:39that are available to the police and the army.

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