US Secretary of State Antony\u00a0 Blinken has spoken with Kenyan President William Ruto on the ongoing political and security crisis in Haiti, the US Department of State said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
A press release by Matthew Miller, Spokesperson for the US Department of State, said they “underscored unwavering commitment” to the deployment of a Multinational Security Support mission to support the Haitian National Police\u00a0in creating the security conditions necessary to conduct free and fair elections.<\/p>\n
In October last year, the UN Security Council approved the deployment of a Kenyan-led foreign armed force to Haiti to help bring under control violence in which\u00a0gangs control most of the capital and nearly 5,000 people were killed in violence last year.<\/p>\n
Kenya announced plans in July last year to lead the mission to Haiti.<\/p>\n
But Kenya’s High Court\u00a0ruled the deployment, initially expected by January, unconstitutional in the absence of a “reciprocal arrangement” with the host government.<\/p>\n
This placed the entire mission on hold, even as the United States and Canada have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to it, and some countries have committed armed personnel.<\/p>\n
Kenya and Haiti signed a security deal early this month that it hopes will satisfy a domestic court’s objections to its plan to send the police force to lead the U.N.-approved mission.<\/p>\n
The head of Haiti\u2019s national police,\u00a0Frantz Elbe, has also visited Kenya on a “fact-finding mission” where he met the head of the Kenya Police Service, Japhet Koome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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