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Fierce gang boss set to welcome Kenya police in Haiti mission

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Jimmy Cherizier, the leader of the G9 Family and Allies gang network in Haiti. [AP photo]

In the days following an approval by the United Nations for Kenya to send its police officers to Haiti to restore order in a country that has been run over by armed gangs, its most feared gang leader, Jimmy Cherizier, led a protest against the deployment.

Flanked by dozens of heavily armed men under his command, Cherizier, a former police officer turned leader of the internationally known and locally dreaded G9 Family and Allies gang, led a protest in the streets of Port-au-Prince against the UN and American-backed Kenyan-led stabilisation mission.

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