Kenyan Court Halts Police Deployment to Haiti

A Kenyan court has blocked the deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti as part of a UN-backed multinational force to restore security, ruling that the move contravenes the constitution and is therefore unconstitutional, illegal, and invalid. The State Department had pledged $100 million to support the force to quell gang violence in Haiti, with Kenya volunteering to lead it, but a legal challenge led to the court ruling. The decision poses a potential setback for Kenya's peacekeeping mission to Haiti, which it spearheads alongside Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, and Jamaica, as gang violence in Haiti has risen by over 100% last year.