Link to article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/world/americas/kenya-haiti-police-deployment.html
In July Kenya stated they would send 1,000 officers to help control the overwhelming violence occurring in Haiti. According to the United Nations, over 360,000 people have been displaced and 1200 have been killed since early January. On March 1st 2024, the Haitian prime minister and Kenyan President claimed that they would fast track the deployment due to its delay. Although, just 11 days following that claim, they seemed to have changed their minds. Instead of fast tracking the deployment, they chose to pause it altogether. They made this decision after the Haitian prime minister, Ariel Henry Resigned overnight. They announced they would reevaluate once a new Haitian government was in place. Many people are now doubting the success in the mission to save Haiti.
Five other countries have already agreed to send personnel to help fight the armed gangs in Haiti. These countries include Bangladesh, the Bahamas, Barbados, Benin, and Chad. Due to the support from other countries, the impact of Kenya changing their mind will likely not affect their success at reducing the gangs that much. On the other hand, Kenya will now be more successful internally. The various officials in Kenya who didn’t agree with sending their officers are now happy creating a more cohesive and positive Kenyan government and the 1,000 officers can now focus more on the crimes or issues within Kenya itself.
In class, we have discussed internal and external issues. Internal issues are things that are happening within a country that affect things like the safety of the citizens or the economy. External issues are things that are happening outside a countries borders that still affect them. In this case, the violence the armed gangs in Haiti are creating is an internal issue for Haiti.