Kenya’s High Court has extended an order blocking the government from deploying police officers to Haiti on a UN-backed mission aiming to tackle violence in the Caribbean nation.
The ruling came a day after the UN warned that security in Haiti, where violent gangs control large swathes of the country, has collapsed even further, with major crimes hitting “record highs”.
Kenya had offered to lead a multinational force to Haiti in an effort to quell the troubles. It also pledged to deploy 1,000 of its police officers.
“This court became seized of this matter earlier than everyone else and it would not make sense for it to set aside or allow the interim orders to lapse,” High Court judge Enock Mwita said, adding that doing so would amount to “an academic exercise.”
He said the matter would be heard in an open court session from November 9 in a quicker way.
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