However, the Kenyan Supreme Court considered it illegal and unconstitutional to deploy soldiers to halt the wave of violence that has shaken Haiti for months with a notable toll of dead, wounded, kidnapped, and displaced people.

Haiti´s Prime Minister Ariel Henry reacted four days after the announcement of the news, thanking Kenyan President William Ruto for accepting to send men of the African nation to be part of a multinational United Nations mission in Haiti.

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