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US military to deliver 24 additional armored vehicles to Kenyan police in Haiti

2024.08.23 20:17

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Kenyan police officers stand together during a joint operation with Haitian Police, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 29, 2024. REUTERS/Jean Feguens Regala/File Photo

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The U.S. Southern Command, the Department of Defense’s joint military command covering Latin America and the Caribbean, said on Friday it would deliver 24 additional mine resistant ambush protected (MRAP) MaxxPro vehicles to Kenyan personnel deployed in Haiti.

Some 400 Kenyan police, leading a U.N.-ratified security mission mandated to fight heavily armed gangs that have taken over most of the capital, recently deployed to Haiti.



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