More countries continue to evacuate their nationals from the troubled Haiti as kenya plans to send their troops for a peace keeping mission.
According to reports, Canada is the latest country to evacuate their nationals from Haiti at a time when Kenya plans to send its citizens to the troubled Caribbean nation once a functional government is put in place.
Canada first started plans to evacuate their nationals after the Canada Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced on Monday, March 25.
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Canada’s decision to help its citizens flee came a week after the United States introduced chartered flights for American nationals fleeing the wartorn nation.
“We are arranging a charter flight for U.S. citizens from Cap-Haitien to the United States, assuming the security situation in Cap-Haitien remains stable.”
Despite the US and Canada’s efforts to evacuate their citizens, both countries including US government officials and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have called President William Ruto within the last month to seek assurance that Kenya will honour its promise to send security officers to Haiti.
Both countries have also made monetary contributions towards the Haiti mission by kenya through pledges of millions of dollars to brave soldiers who are preparing to storm Haiti.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on March 9, made a call to President William Ruto where he was assured Kenya would not negate an earlier agreement to deploy 1,000 police officers to Haiti.
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Four days later, Ruto received another call from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who committed Ksh8.2 billion for Kenya to go ahead with the mission.
It’s just a matter of time before kenya sends their nationals to Haiti in a bid to bring peace in the troubled Caribbean nation as gangs continue to warn Kenya of dire consequences and vow to reiterate harshly.