Kenya has appealed for urgent financial support from the international community to sustain a police deployment in Haiti, which has been extended by a year. The multinational security mission, which began in June, is helping fight gangs controlling much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and nearby areas.

Kenya will send 600 more police officers to Haiti next month to bolster an international anti-gang mission, President William Ruto said on Friday during a visit by the Haitian prime minister intended to speed up deployments to the force.

Kenya will deploy an additional 600 police officers to Haiti to enhance its role in an international anti-gang mission, following a commitment from President William Ruto. The effort aims to support the Multinational Security Support initiative,

"We are asking the international community to match their commitment and their pledges with the necessary action for us to be able to complete the task ahead of us," Kenya's President William Ruto said on Friday.

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has embarked on a diplomatic trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya following a brutal gang massacre that left at least 70 dead in the town of Pont-Sonde. The attack,

Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille on Thursday, October 10 arrived in Kenya after one of the deadliest gang attacks in the Caribbean nation was witnessed on Thursday, October 3. This is after members of the Gran Grif gang stormed the town of Pont-Sonde in the western Artibonite region early Thursday killing at least 70 people,