Chad to Gradually Replace Kenyan Force in Haiti Through October, Dominican Republic Says

The U.N.-backed Gang Suppression Force – an international mobilization intended to help Haiti’s police fight powerful armed gangs in the Caribbean country – should ​fully deploy by October this year, Roberto Alvarez, foreign minister of the ‌neighboring Dominican Republic, said on Tuesday. Alvarez, who spoke after a meeting with U.S. embassy officials, said new troops from Chad are now being trained in the United States and the Kenyan police who deployed ​to Haiti under an earlier model of the force should withdraw gradually. These ​Chadian forces are training in the United States right now,” Alvarez ⁠said, adding the Kenyans forces would withdraw gradually. (Reuters)