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Kenyan President Ruto will visit Haiti on Saturday amid questions over deployment

By Jacqueline Charles and Michael Wilner

Updated September 20, 2024 11:20 PM

President William Ruto of the Republic of Kenya speaks during a joint press conference with President Joe Biden on Thursday, May 23, 2024 in Washington, D.C. Jasper Colt Jasper Colt-USA TODAY

President William Ruto of Kenya will visit Haiti on Saturday morning and will receive a formal diplomatic welcome, the Haitian government said on Friday.

The visit comes several months after the deployment to Haiti of a Kenyan force that was meant to lead a multinational contingent to aid the Haitian police.

The mission has been plagued by logistical problems and cost overruns, leading the United States — which primarily funds the mission — to explore a new format at the United Nations in recent weeks.

This story was originally published September 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM.

Jacqueline Charles

Miami Herald

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Jacqueline Charles has reported on Haiti and the English-speaking Caribbean for the Miami Herald for over a decade. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for her coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, she was awarded a 2018 Maria Moors Cabot Prize — the most prestigious award for coverage of the Americas.

Michael Wilner

McClatchy DC

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Michael Wilner is an award-winning journalist and was McClatchy’s chief Washington correspondent. Wilner joined the company in 2019 as a White House correspondent, and led coverage for its 30 newspapers of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and the Biden administration. Wilner was previously Washington bureau chief for The Jerusalem Post. He holds degrees from Claremont McKenna College and Columbia University and is a native of New York City.

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