Kenya Court extends bar on deploying police to Haiti, Aukot says

FILE - National police officers patrol an intersection in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 5, 2023. [VOA]

Kenyan court extended on Tuesday a temporary order barring the government from deploying hundreds of police officers to Haiti in a U.N.-approved mission aimed at helping the Caribbean nation tackle gang violence, a lawyer who filed the case said.

Following an appeal for assistance from Haiti, Kenya in July offered to send 1,000 officers to help restore security amid a worsening crisis in which gangs have forced around 200,000 people to flee their homes.