- Kenya will lead an international police force aimed at the mission to begin probably in a month.
- The plan to send a security force to Haiti will pass a vote at the U.N. Security Council.
United States President Joe Boden has thanked President William Ruto for his willingness to lead the United Nations Security Mission. https://rb.gy/c614x
United States President Joe Boden has thanked President William Ruto for his willingness to lead the United Nations Security Mission.
Speaking on Tuesday at the UN General Assembly, President Biden underscored the importance of nations working together to tackle challenges.
"I thank President Ruto of Kenya. I thank him for his willingness to serve as lead nation of UN's Security Support Mission," he said.
Biden called on the security council to authorize the security mission immediately saying the people of Haiti cannot wait much longer.
This comes after Kenya agreed to deploy 1,000 police officers to Haiti to help restore normalcy and combat the gang violence that has wrecked the Caribbean nation.
Kenya will lead an international police force aimed at the mission to begin probably in a month.
From January 1 until August 15, more than 2,400 people in Haiti were reported killed, more than 950 kidnapped and another 902 injured, according to the most recent U.N. statistics.
The plan to send a security force to Haiti will undergo voting at the UN Security Council.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have called for the planned multinational force to include safeguards to prevent abuses.
Previous interventions left behind a devastating cholera epidemic, as well as over a hundred allegations of sexual abuse.
The Caribbean nation is suffering from a surge in gang violence and is in a deep security, political and humanitarian crisis.
As the search continued, gang warfare continued to worsen, leading to a wave of hundreds of kidnappings and the emergence of vigilantes taking justice into their own hands.