{"id":94441,"date":"2024-09-21T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T10:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/21\/kenya-led-haiti-mission-arrests-several-gang-members-in-port-au-prince\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T10:03:05","slug":"kenya-led-haiti-mission-arrests-several-gang-members-in-port-au-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kenya-led-haiti-mission-arrests-several-gang-members-in-port-au-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya-led Haiti Mission arrests several gang members in Port Au Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 21\u2013The Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti is scaling up joint operations to restore normalcy in the gang-controlled area in the Caribbean nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the latest mission brief, the National Police Service said the MSS team in Haiti and the Haiti National Police (HNP) have conducted security operations in Haiti\u2019s Capital Port Au Prince Downtown, Ganthier, and Delmas, among other areas.<\/p>\n<p>The NPS said that the operations have led to arrest of a number of gang members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese joint patrols and operations have led to several arrests of gang members and a return to normalcy in the once gang-ridden areas,\u201d NPS said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The NPS disclosed that an advance contingent of officers from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) arrived in Haiti under the Command of Colonel Kevron Henry from Jamaica on September 12.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Henry will deputize Kenya\u2019s Godfrey\u00a0Otunge who is the head of the mission.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Return to normalcy <\/h2>\n<p>On September 3, Kenya\u2019s NPS disclosed that normalcy was resuming in areas surrounding Haiti\u2019s main international airport in the Capital Port Au Prince, three months after the resumption of operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Toussaint-Louverture\u00a0airport, had been closed on early March after gang violence escalated in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Police Spokesperson Resila Onyango told Capital FM News Tuesday that the MSS had taken over the full control of the airport and pacified the area North of the airport where gangs have been wreaking havoc.<\/p>\n<p>Resila said that the presence of MSS police units has seen an increase in the frequency of commercial, cargo and domestic flights using the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore the arrival of MSS, airport North area was a no-go zone but gradually, normalcy is returning after MSS occupied the airport, taking security control and pacifying its environs through sustained operations and patrols,\u201d Resila told Capital FM News.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti has been grappling with a surge in violence since the assassination of President Jovenel Mo\u00efse in July 2021 at his private residence in the capital, Port-au-Prince, triggering calls for a security intervention.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 21\u2013The Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti is scaling up joint operations to restore normalcy in the gang-controlled area in the Caribbean nation. In the latest mission brief, the National Police Service said the MSS team in Haiti and the Haiti National Police (HNP) have conducted security operations in Haiti\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}