Kenya promised cops to Haiti. Its citizens didn’t like that.
When Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his resignation two weeks ago amid a wave of gang violence on the Caribbean island, citizens of an African country 8,000 miles away were paying close attention.
That is because for Kenyans, Haiti’s future has recently become deeply entangled in their own. In fact, when Mr. Henry resigned, he was actually on his way home from Nairobi, where he had been to sign an agreement with Kenya’s government to deploy 1,000 police officers to Haiti to help restore law and order.
Mr. Henry called it a brave act of “solidarity with the people of Haiti.” And Kenya’s government” in support of a “brother nation” in the African diaspora.
