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The first group of Kenyan police have landed in Haiti to help combat the deadly gang violence gripping the country. Over 80% of the capital Port au Prince is under gang control and hundreds of thousands of people are affected by a humanitarian crisis.

Other Caribbean and African nations, including Barbados, Jamaica and Chad, as well as…

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@Dan13Speed

The 1,000 Kenyan Police Special Forces will turn things around for Haiti. The Gangs are poorly trained, and most of them have never received any formal military training. They barely know how to use the weapons they are brandishing. These are merely local criminals who have no tactical or operational capability. Right now we have 400 Kenyan Police, who are doing foot patrols in groups of about 50 and this is making a huge impact on the ground. Calm and confidence is being restored. It is important that Haiti increase the size of its Police Force, and train more SWAT Teams. It is absolutely insane to manage a country with only 9,000 Police, and one or two dozen SWAT, with less than 20 armored vehicles, (most of them riddled with bullet holes) less than 70 transport vehicles, (most of these vehicles are in poor mechanical condition) no helicopters. The Police in Haiti are a big joke. They are simply poorly trained and under funded. If the International Community is serious about peace in Haiti, they need to provide more funding and better training to the Haitian Police, otherwise this will be a temporary solution as Kenya will not be in Haiti for more than a year or two,.

@leeoswald9799

Blacks cannot rule themselves. Bring back their English and French masters.

@EnkhtaivanL-ys5zz

How do the gunmen buy the weapons and arms?

@joshchekin370

2/2

Population:
Dominican Republic = 11.28 million
Dominica's R GDP = $370.78 Billion
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World Bank estimations show that in 2021:
Poverty defined as living with less than $6.85/day increased from 20 percent in 2019 to 23.2 percent (equivalent to 350,000 people) in 2021.-
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Over the last two decades, the Dominican Republic has been one of the fastest-growing economies in the region. This was due to a combination of market-oriented structural reforms in the early 1990s and favorable external conditions that supported economic growth.-
A middle-income country, the economy is based on tourism, agriculture, Free Trade Zone (FTZ) manufacturing, mining, real estate, and service industries.-
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Why is Haiti so poor but the Dominican Republic is not?
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But the main reason is not geography, but is instead, colonial history, the different consequences of Haiti being colonized by rich France that brought in lots of slaves, and the eastern half that became the Dominican Republic being colonized by Spain, which by then was poor, didn't bring in many slaves and was more
concerned with Peru and Mexico.-
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MON 20 MAY 2024
Financial Times
Joe Daniels
Dominican Republic president re-elected amid Haiti migrant crackdown:
Luis Abinader wins second term on tourism-driven economic boom and pledge to reform public finances.-
Luis Abinader has claimed victory in the Dominican Republic’s presidential election following a campaign that focused on his stewardship of a thriving economy and a crackdown on migrants from neighbouring Haiti.-
Abinader, a 56-year-old former executive at his family’s tourism-focused construction company, won 58 per cent of the vote, with 70 per cent of ballots counted on Sunday night.-
During his first term, which began in 2020, the Dominican Republic overtook Ecuador to become Latin America’s seventh-largest economy, largely thanks to a tourism boom, with GDP a head doubling over the past 15 years. A record 10mn visitors flocked to the country last year.-
Image:
Luis Abinader has staked a hardline position on Haiti, the Dominican Republic’s crisis-hit neighbour on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola © Orlando Barria/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

@joshchekin370

1/2

To supporters of Kenya's deployment to Haiti:
As hurricane season descends on the Carib, will we be sending aid in cement and building materials etc?
Or do we just troops around the World Mr Ruto ?
Your silence is deafening 🤔👆
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SUN 30 JUNE 2024
Ana Faguy
Caribbean braces as Hurricane Beryl strengthens:
Caribbean nations are warning residents to make emergency preparations with a powerful and potentially deadly hurricane strengthening further as it moves towards them.
Beryl, the first named hurricane of the season, is due to make landfall over a number of islands late on Sunday.-
The hurricane has been upgraded by forecasters to a "very dangerous" category three storm – meaning it is predicted to have winds of 111-130mph (179-209km/h).
The major storm is expected to strengthen further as nears the Caribbean islands of Barbados, Dominica, Grenada and Martinique, among others.
Across the region, people are boarding up their homes, queueing for fuel at filling stations and stockpiling supplies and water in preparation for the storm.-
Image:
Cars are lining up at petrol stations before hurricane Beryl lands in Bridgetown, Barbados.-
https://www.google.com/amp/story/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrlk5gp24ro.amp
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Please try to be informed before rushing into partisan views and positions.-
Kenya is a poor country ruled by some politicians who are far wealthier than their European or even USA counterparts.-
America has put $300 millon on a table for Haiti security deployment and a desperate President Ruto and his Parliament had to say yes, in exchange for $190 million of that fund.- which is also tied to IMF and World bank assistance already lent.-
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Dear Kenyan's:
You have now just been entered into one of the most complex and ignorant endeavors, that you will find almost impossible to extricate the Nation from.-
All you supporters of this Kenyan led security deployment seem oblivious to some real issues.-
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Haiti's biggest problem is CORRUPTION.
Kenya's biggest problem is CORRUPTION.
Haiti's GDP is in the Billions yet the majority of Haitian's descended from uncompensated slaves, still live in slums whilst some of the wealthiest Caribbean's live on this very Island.-
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Haiti's population = 11.58 million
Haiti's GDP = $24.05 Billion.-
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World Bank estimations show that in 2023:
29.2 percent of Haitians lived on less than $2.15 a day below the international poverty line and 58.0 percent of Haitians live on less than $3.65 a day.-
Haiti unemployment rate for 2022 was 14.78%, a 0.78% decline from 2021.-
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Haiti has an agricultural economy. Over half of the world's vetiver oil (an essential oil used in high-end perfumes) comes from Haiti. Bananas, cocoa, and mangoes are important export crops. Haiti has also moved to expand to higher-end manufacturing, producing Android-based tablets and current sensors and transformers.
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29.2 percent of Haitians lived on less than $2.15 a day below the international poverty line and 58.0 percent of Haitians live on less than $3.65 a day.-
Haiti unemployment rate for 2022 was 14.78%, a 0.78% decline from 2021.-

@faithinGod7418

How a country that was able to gain independence then turn to this is appalling.

@Mrcookiemonster515

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@dhmonkey50

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@BlackPantherrStudios

Haiti 🇭🇹 needs to rebuild its Army and Air Force effective immediately to eradicate future gang violence in February 6 2026 by the guidance and support of the Kenya Military. Benin 🇧🇯, Nigeria 🇳🇬, Senegal 🇸🇳, Ethiopia 🇪🇹, and Ghana 🇬🇭 should help Haiti 🇭🇹 strengthen their police 🚓🚨 force, Army, and Air Force right now. Haiti 🇭🇹 historically is part of West Africa 🌍🇧🇯🖤. Great video

@ismailmuhamud1263

Kenyan police are corrupted they are also gang

@bobkaloki

Kenyan Citizens don't approve of President Ruto sending the Police to Haiti.

It wouldn't be a bad thing if Kenya were to take control of Haiti. They'd finally leave the rest of the world alone with authoritarian leadership since clearly Haiti is incapable of successful self governance.

@JTBCPFC

Why cant they just use voodoo to sort it out?

@ilyassiddique6656

Such hand picked stats without context are misleading and only promote further escalate the spiral of violence. Why omit the repeated violent overthrows by CIA and French lobbies of democratically elected governments that were finally investing in public services (e.g. Aristide) that were the most effective prevention against violence and poverty? Why omit that it was a previous Western forced intervention that brought cholera into Haiti?

@adstix

Charity, they say, begins at home!
Your own roof is on fire while you go attending to someone else's fire!
Who does that?!