00:00Chad is getting ready to deploy some 800 police officers to Haiti.
00:06They'll join an international effort aimed at tackling widespread gang activity in the
00:11Caribbean nation. The UN-backed Gang Suppression Force succeeds the smaller Kenyan-led mission
00:17that began operations in 2024. The multinational force is staffed by countries including Jamaica,
00:24Guatemala and El Salvador. The GSF works with Haitian security forces and has the power to
00:31arrest and detain suspected gang members. It's expected to reach its full capacity of more than
00:37five and a half thousand police and soldiers by October, although efforts to deploy new troops
00:43have been slow. Hundreds of Kenyan officers who've been in Haiti since 2024 will gradually withdraw.
00:50Three members of the Kenyan deployment have been killed in the course of their mission.
00:55Haiti has seen escalating gang warfare since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse
01:01in 2021. Gangs now control about 90 percent of the country's capital, Port-au-Prince.
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