UN votes to send Kenyan-led security force to Haiti to combat gangs

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The UN security council has voted to send a Kenyan-led multinational security force to Haiti to help its government combat violent gangs, which have driven the Caribbean country into anarchy. A US resolution to approve the force, six years since the closure of a previous UN stabilisation mission, drew 13 votes in favour with Russia and China abstaining. The Multinational Security Support mission has been authorised for a year, to be reviewed after nine months. Kenya’s foreign affairs minister, Alfred Mutua, said in a BBC interview that Kenyan troops should be in Haiti by the end of the year. Jamaica,...