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Why is Kenya getting involved in Haiti?

What are Kenya’s reasons for volunteering to help Haiti?

The Caribbean country of Haiti has been blighted for years by groups of armed gangs, who have proved more than a match for the national police force, who have struggled to confront them.

Now as the country descends further into lawlessness, a response to Haiti’s plea for international assistance may finally be at hand, in the form of a United Nations backed multi-national security force led by Kenya and supported financially by the United States. This East African country has volunteered to lead the mission with their own elite police unit, to help Haiti’s transitional authorities restore order. But the Kenyan government’s decision to involve itself in another country’s problems has raised some questions back home about the deployment.

So, on this week’s Inquiry, we’re asking ‘Why is Kenya getting involved in Haiti?’

Contributors:
Robert Fatton Jr, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, USA.
Dismas Mokua, Political Risk Analyst, Tricarta Advisory Limited, Nairobi, Kenya
Professor Karuti Kanyinga, University of Nairobi Institute for Development Studies, Kenya
Michelle Gavin, Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, USA

Presenter: Charmaine Cozier
Producer: Jill Collins
Researcher: Matt Toulson
Technical Producer: Nicky Edwards
Production Coordinator:Tim Fernley
Editor: Tara McDermott

Image/Credit: Haiti awaits the arrival of Kenyan led international security support mission, Port Au Prince/ORLANDO BARRIA/EPA-EFE/REX Shutterstock via ´óÏó´«Ã½ Images

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