Kenya Postpones Plans to Deploy Police to Haiti After Ariel Henry Resignation

Kenya has halted plans to deploy a thousand of its police officers to lead the mission in Haiti to restore law and order in the streets rocked by gang protests for the past few months after the country’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry bowed to pressure to resign. Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, made the decision despite expressing enthusiasm in October last year for leading a U.N. peacekeeping mission to Haiti. The policing plans attracted criticism from Kenyans, with the majority saying that the country needs to prioritize deploying its police to Haiti. The plan was also challenged in court. Kenya’s highest court, The Supreme Court, ruled that it was unconstitutional for the president to deploy police to Haiti, in part, because of a lack of reciprocal agreements on such deployments between the two countries; a ruling that Kenyan President Wiliam Ruto insists on going against....