(12 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Port au Prince, Haiti - 12 September 2024
1. Various of C130 Hercules aircraft arriving at Haiti International Airport
2. Various of Jamaican soldiers disembarking plane
3. Various of Jamaican soldiers at airport
4. Haitian, Kenyan and Jamaicans standing together
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Godfrey Otunga, Head of Multinational Kenyan Police Force:
"I would like to welcome our brothers from Jamaica and Belize, for this special mission that we are undertaking."
6. Otunga greeting Jamaican soldiers
7. Jamaican soldiers listening to speech
8. Various of Jamaican soldiers
STORYLINE:
Two dozen soldiers and police officers from Jamaica arrived in Haiti on Thursday to join a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to fight powerful gangs.
Jamaica is the second country to join the mission, which was approved by the U.N. Security Council in October 2023 and began when the first contingent of Kenyan police arrived in Haiti in late June.
Earlier this week, authorities in Jamaica announced the imminent deployment and said the 20 soldiers and four police officers would be responsible for providing command, planning and logistics support.
They will work alongside Haiti’s military and police to fight gangs that control 80% of the capital of Port-au-Prince.
Jamaica had pledged a total of 170 soldiers and 30 police officers, but Prime Minister Andrew Holness said it wasn’t possible to deploy them all at once.
The Jamaicans were deployed as the U.S. warned that the Kenyan-led mission lacked resources and considered a U.N. peacekeeping mission as one way to secure more money and personnel.
The U.S. and Ecuador recently circulated a draft resolution asking the U.N. to start planning for a U.N. peacekeeping operation to replace the current mission. But experts have said it’s unlikely the U.N. Security Council would approve it.
The current mission is expected to have a total of 2,500 personnel, with the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin and Chad also pledging to send police and soldiers, although it wasn’t clear when that would happen.
AP Video shot by Pierre Luxama
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