Week begins in Haiti with unfulfilled promise from Kenya

Otunge, the commander of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti, said at a meeting in the capital that serious operations on the ground were planned, according to the digital newspaper Haiti Libre.

Weeks ago, US Ambassador Dennis Hankins also threatened the criminal gangs by saying: “the gang members will have to choose between prison and the cemetery”.

Faced with this position of their opponents, the criminals do not stop their violent actions and maintain control of 14 municipalities in two departments and 80% of Port-au-Prince.

The population is still desperate and the men led by Otunge from Kenya and the Haitian national police find it impossible to eradicate the gang members.

So far, seven countries from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean have indicated their willingness to provide men for the Multinational Security Support Mission, which will fight gangs in Haiti.

Kenya, which had offered to lead the operations, Benin and Chad are among the African countries, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Barbados are among the Caribbean countries, and Bangladesh and Suriname have announced that they will send a security support mission.

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