DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic once again is stepping up border surveillance after the announcement the first Kenya security forces have arrived in Haiti to combat gang violence. The first 400 police contingent is part of a promised 1,000-men mission. Other countries, including Algeria, Benin, Chad, Bangladesh, Jamaica, Belize and the Bahamas, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, France, Germany, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Spain have promised to send another 1,500 troops.

The Kenya government of President William Ruto has explained that the initial group of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MMSS) is made up of elite officers from several units including the anti-terrorist squadron, which fought radical Somali Islamists Shebab on Kenyan soil. Others are members of the Rapid Deployment Unit, the Border Patrol Unit, also engaged in the...