Kenya Peace Mission In Haiti Needs Parliament Sign Off

KENYA – Kenya’s cabinet on Friday approved the deployment of 1,000 police to lead a multinational peacekeeping mission to Haiti to combat gang violence.

The country’s parliament must now sign off on the resolution.

According to the most recent U.N. statistics up to August more than 2,400 people in Haiti were reported killed, more than 950 kidnapped and another 902 injured.

Kenya’s high court on Monday barred the deployment, approved by the U.N. Security Council earlier this month, for two weeks until a challenge to the deployment filed by a local politician is heard on October 24th.