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200 Kenyan police officers arrive at UN mission in Haiti

Kenyan police, who are part of a UN-backed multinational force, pray on the tarmac after landing at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 6, 2025.

Two hundred Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on Thursday to join the United Nations-backed mission to fight gangs in the crisis-plagued Caribbean country.

More than 600 Kenyan officers had already been stationed in Haiti as part of a multinational force of police officers and soldiers from other countries - including Jamaica, Guatemala and El Salvador - who assist Haiti's police in fighting the violent gangs in control of much of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

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