Haiti and Kenya sign agreements

[Dolores]

Haiti and Kenya have signed the agreements required by Kenyan courts to allow trained personnel from Kenya to head up the peace-keeping mission in the troubled nation of Haiti. The one thousand policemen from Kenya will head up the UN mission approved by the Organization of American States, and urged by the Ariel Henry acting government in Haiti and the Dominican Republic before the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council.

Kenyan President William Ruto announced and Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry signed as witnesses the required document during a ceremony in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

The government heads also discussed the next steps in the arrival of the security force in Haiti.

As has been widely covered in local and international press releases, Haiti is currently under siege by several well-armed gangs who are living off of the proceeds...

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[chico bill]

I have doubts that Kenya will actually send anyone, and if they do it will just be token troops who stay in their barracks

 

[windeguy]

I have doubts that Kenya will actually send anyone, and if they do it will just be token troops who stay in their barracks

Whatever they send will likely be dead in a short time. But I agree the likelihood of getting $550 million USD for those mercenaries is a pipe dream.

 

[Ecoman1949]

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Too little too late! Interesting to see Macron step up to the plate financially. Historically France does have some interest in Haiti, even though they washed their hands of it a long time ago. Macron made rumblings about sending French troops to the Ukraine to repel advancing Russian forces. He can afford to do this. France is the only nation that has a volunteer Foreign Legion. Sacrificial lambs they can send into hell holes like the Ukraine. Maybe he could send a Foreign Legion contingent to Haiti to support the Kenyans.

 

[Ecoman1949]

Whatever they send will likely be dead in a short time. But I agree the likelihood of getting $550 million USD for those mercenaries is a pipe dream.

Thompson gunners like Roland don't come cheap! I don’t see what Guyana’s interest in Haiti is and why they are kicking in funds.

 

[windeguy]

Well, let us know when enough fools chip in to make the required $550 million USD to send Kenyan mercenaries to their slaughter.

 

[windeguy]

Thompson gunners like Roland don't come cheap! I don’t see what Guyana’s interest in Haiti is and why they are kicking in funds.

Guyana? Who knows. Maybe someone there wants that feel good feeling?

 

[NanSanPedro]

From my IG feed:

la_nati_ayiti

🚨🇭🇹 Several Kenyan police officers🇰🇪 who had volunteered for deployment with the multinational Mission Support Mission in Haiti🇭🇹 have decided to withdraw. An officer told the @BBC.
An officer told the @BBC that they opted for their safety. "There were no clear mechanisms on how they were supposed to work during the mission," he told the newspaper. Another officer stated that some members of his team had withdrawn following the recent increase in violence.✍🏾S/@BBC

Today it is really clear that Haitian politicians must unite to get Haiti out of this crisis.

What do you think Guys?

 

[NanSanPedro]

From my IG feed:

Another update:

sakpase_haiti

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry was attempting to fly home on Tuesday to a country in crisis, returning from a critical diplomatic mission overseas, when he received a message midair from the U.S. State Department.

The Biden administration had been proposing for months that Henry, in power since the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse nearly three years ago, lead a political transition toward democratic elections. With gangs now overrunning Port-au-Prince, time had run out. Henry was midflight when the administration asked him to agree to a new transitional government — and resign.

It was a dramatic capstone to a day of urgent meetings in Washington, where administration officials who had quietly referred to the prospect of Haiti’s collapse as their nightmare scenario were now forced to address their worst fears. And it was an about-face that few in Haiti were expecting from a White House that had long pushed back against calls for Henry’s resignation, only now to press for his hasty departure in a moment of peril.

Secretly, Henry had been in the United States after arriving from Nairobi, Kenya over the weekend, negotiating a stealth return home with diplomats from the neighboring Dominican Republic. Dominican officials initially discussed having Henry, 74, fly to Santo Domingo before taking a helicopter across the border, a plan that had been briefed to U.S. and United Nations officials, perhaps using a rotorcraft with night vision for the mission.

Everyone privy to the plan knew that Henry’s charter plane, a 13-seat Gulfstream, could not land directly in Port-au-Prince, where gangs had encircled the main airport, part of a broad and unprecedented assault on the country’s core institutions.

But after Henry and his delegation departed Newark, N.J., on Tuesday, Santo Domingo unexpectedly reversed course, refusing clearance to allow his plane to land. Henry faced a choice whether to detour to Puerto Rico or to one of a number of neighboring Caribbean countries whose leaders have been pushing for his resignation.

@haitianamericans

 

[Ecoman1949]

From my IG feed:

Sober second thought by the Kenyans, spiraling violent chaos in Haiti, and the UN’s continuing lack of a real action plan for Haitian intervention are all combining to kill the Kenyan Intervention. Not surprising since we’re close to mid March and the initial proposal called for Kenyan boots to be on Haitian ground the first week of January. January past, there was some hope of an intervention restoring some semblance of order. That ship has definitely sailed now. The onus Is now on the UN to put a plan in place to end the chaos in Haiti.

The Kenyans know their limits and it would appear Haiti has exceeded them. Blood money is only attractive if you’re alive to spend it.

 

[Ecoman1949]

Another update:

sakpase_haiti

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry was attempting to fly home on Tuesday to a country in crisis, returning from a critical diplomatic mission overseas, when he received a message midair from the U.S. State Department.

The Biden administration had been proposing for months that Henry, in power since the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse nearly three years ago, lead a political transition toward democratic elections. With gangs now overrunning Port-au-Prince, time had run out. Henry was midflight when the administration asked him to agree to a new transitional government — and resign.

It was a dramatic capstone to a day of urgent meetings in Washington, where administration officials who had quietly referred to the prospect of Haiti’s collapse as their nightmare scenario were now forced to address their worst fears. And it was an about-face that few in Haiti were expecting from a White House that had long pushed back against calls for Henry’s resignation, only now to press for his hasty departure in a moment of peril.

Secretly, Henry had been in the United States after arriving from Nairobi, Kenya over the weekend, negotiating a stealth return home with diplomats from the neighboring Dominican Republic. Dominican officials initially discussed having Henry, 74, fly to Santo Domingo before taking a helicopter across the border, a plan that had been briefed to U.S. and United Nations officials, perhaps using a rotorcraft with night vision for the mission.

Everyone privy to the plan knew that Henry’s charter plane, a 13-seat Gulfstream, could not land directly in Port-au-Prince, where gangs had encircled the main airport, part of a broad and unprecedented assault on the country’s core institutions.

But after Henry and his delegation departed Newark, N.J., on Tuesday, Santo Domingo unexpectedly reversed course, refusing clearance to allow his plane to land. Henry faced a choice whether to detour to Puerto Rico or to one of a number of neighboring Caribbean countries whose leaders have been pushing for his resignation.

@haitianamericans

Amazing behind the scenes political maneuvering NSP. This stuff reads like something out of Robert Ludlum or John LeCarre spy novels. Too many tea leaves in the cup now to read the future of Haiti.

 

[windeguy]

Sober second thought by the Kenyans, spiraling violent chaos in Haiti, and the UN’s continuing lack of a real action plan for Haitian intervention are all combining to kill the Kenyan Intervention. Not surprising since we’re close to mid March and the initial proposal called for Kenyan boots to be on Haitian ground the first week of January. January past, there was some hope of an intervention restoring some semblance of order. That ship has definitely sailed now. The onus Is now on the UN to put a plan in place to end the chaos in Haiti.

The Kenyans know their limits and it would appear Haiti has exceeded them. Blood money is only attractive if you’re alive to spend it.

The Useless Nations organization? What will they do?

Nothing.

 

[Ecoman1949]

The Useless Nations organization? What will they do?

Nothing.

The months of UN indifference to the Haitian problem has backed them into a political corner. The problem is the US wants Ariel to form an interim government and the US as the biggest UN funder calls the tune. In today’s world of aircraft carrier diplomacy, the UN has become an anachronism. Anything they do in Haiti will be a disaster in the making and I hope the Useless Nations end up wearing it. They stood by and twiddled their thumbs while genocide was being carried out in Rwanda and the Balkans. Now they are playing the genocide card in Gaza to get a ceasefire. A ceasefire that could give remaining Hamas terrorists time to escape or rearm. The UN is its own worst enemy.

Just saw an interview with two Canadians stuck in Haiti. They were in a hotel near the airport but had to escape in an armoured car with an armed escort and flee to safer refuge in the hills near Port Au Prince. They have worked in Haiti training agricultural workers on the use and maintenance of farm tractors. One guy has been to Haiti 37 times over the years. He’s been under fire a few times. He says what’s happening now is very different and extremely dangerous. He’s in contact with some US citizens trapped near the airport who are hoping the US Marines will do an extraction flight from the airport. The gangs are hitting the police stations hard. If the police force collapses, he figures the gangs will gain total control.

 

[XQT]

So far talk and no action.
I would like to see if and when Kenyans arrive in Haiti.

I would also like to read the reciprocal agreement.

If Kenyans ever were to arrive what is the Mission Statement? I I
What are the Rules of Engagement?
Previous UN peace keeping missions have been a desaster
And an imposition on the soldiers who have to work under unsustainable rules of engagement.

Will the USA get tired of throwing money at Haiti.

They have spend billions since the Duvalier reign of terror and much more after the earth quake.
All this money has disappeared like water in quick sand.
Money went into corrupt despots foreign bank accounts.
The situation in Haiti after billions of international aid is even more disastrous as ever before.

Factual reality is, that Haiti is one of the less important areas of crisis in the world.
Less money and aid will go to Haiti.

The more grave international problems, the less money and attention to Haiti.

 

[XQT]

There are currently no elected officials in Haiti, with Henry sworn in as prime minister with the backing of the international community shortly after the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise. Under a political deal, the prime minister was supposed to hand over power to elected officials by February 7 this year, but this is yet to happen.

Kenya, Haiti sign ‘reciprocal’ agreement allowing police deployment

The agreement would allow Kenyan police to lead a UN-backed mission in the gang-riven Caribbean nation.

www.aljazeera.com

And the USA have closed the Haitian embassy.

US mulls deploying Marine security team to Haiti amid gang crisis

In 2010, after an earthquake struck Haiti, fleet antiterrorism security team Marines were sent to assist the Marine guards at the embassy there.

www.marinecorpstimes.com

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-tells-citizens-leave-haiti-as-soon-possible-after-violent-weekend-2024-03-04/

Let's hope the violence in Haiti does not spill over into the DR.
If it does grave times for DR citizens
And DR tourist revenues.