Kenya secures global backing for expanded Haiti security mission

Kenya’s spymaster Noordin Haji with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
John Ratcliffe in New York.[Courtesy]

Kenya has won rare international recognition after the United Nations Security Council approved the deployment of a new 5,550-strong Gang Suppression Force (GSF) to stabilise Haiti, replacing the smaller Kenyan-led mission that has struggled to contain spiralling violence in Port-au-Prince.