Kenny police officer was killed in service
A Kenyan police officer who was patrolling with the International Security Force in Haiti was killed in a confrontation with the gang members.
The officer is the first victim to suffer from the mission of multinational support led by the Kenyan (MSS).
The force was sent to Haiti in June of last year to help restore the regime to the country, where the gangs took control of almost the entire capital, Port or Prince, as well as large areas of rural areas.
More than 5,500 people were killed in gangs -related violence in Haiti in 2024, and more than a million people fled their homes.
The commander of the multinational force, General Godfry Autong, said that the Kenyan police officer was wounded in Aristonite, the north of the capital.
General Autong said that the officer, who was unnamed, had been transferred to the hospital, where he died shortly after.
Jack Omaka, a MSS spokesman, said in a statement sent to Reuters news agency that the officer was a “hero who fell” was killed while he was fighting for the people of Haiti, “while the Foreign Ministry in Kenya said he was” saddened by the “loss” of the officer.
Mr. Umaka said that the officer was shot by a gang member during a security operation in the town of Pont Wind.
He added that the multinational force “will follow these gangs to the last man standing.”
MSS was reinforced earlier this month by the arrival of 200 additional Kenyan police officers, but the force was surpassed by the gangs, which continued to arm themselves with strong weapons that were illegally smuggled by the United States.
The future of multinational strength – which also has officers of the Bahamas, Blaze, El Salvador, Guatemala and Jamaica from its ranks – a few weeks ago when the Trump administration ordered the freezing of external aid programs.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio later agreed to waive the US money allocated to the national police in MSS and Haiti, but it is not yet clear whether the United States government supports the transfer of MSS into a peacekeeping process, making its financing more safe.
