Benin offers 2,000 troops to Haiti force
Benin has offered 2,000 troops to support a planned Kenyan-led international force to help Haitian national police fight armed gangs, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a press conference.
She said some Caribbean countries that had pledged support had called for more Francophone nations to join the effort.
Kenya, which has pledged to lead the mission, offered 1,000 police officers, but a local court later barred the move as unconstitutional. President William Ruto has, however, said the plan will go ahead and meetings have since continued.
So far public offers to support the security force, which is based on voluntary contributions, have come largely from developing nations in Africa and the Caribbean.
The UN estimates the conflict in the Caribbean nation killed close to 5,000 people last year and has driven some 300,000 from their homes.
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