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A Kenyan policeman, who was in a patrol with the international security forces in Haiti, was killed in a confrontation with members of the band.
The officer is the first victim suffered by the Kenyan Security Support Mission (MSS).
The force was sent to Haiti in June last year to help restore order in the country where gangs have conquered control of the entire capital, port-prens, as well as large parts of rural areas.
More than 5,500 people were killed in violence associated with bands in Haiti in 2024, and more than a million people fled their homes.
Multinational forces Commander, Gen Godfrey D, said that the Kenyan police officer was wounded in artballitis, a region north of the capital.
The Gen of Resung said that the officer, who was not named, was immediately transferred to a hospital where he died a little later.
Jack Ombaka, a MSS spokesman, said in a statement sent to Reuters agency that the officer was “fallen hero” who “was killed while fighting for Haiti people” while the Kenya Foreign Ministry said he was “broken From the heart, from the loss “of the officer.
Mr. Ombaka said the officer was shot dead by a gang member during a security operation in Pont-Sonde.
He added that multinational forces would “pursue these bands to the last person standing.”
MSS was reinforced this month with the arrival of an additional 200 Kenyan police officers, but the Force was overhanging and exceeding the gangs that continue to be armed with powerful weapons illegally smuggled by the United States.
The future of the multinational forces – which also has officers from the Bahamas, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Jamaica among its ranks – was thrown into doubt a few weeks ago when the Trump administration ordered foreign care programs.
Later, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved a refusal for US funds intended for MSS and Haiti National Police, but it is not yet clear whether the US government supports MSS conversion into a peacekeeping operation of the UN, which would make it financing on it -Safe.
