Port-Au-Prince (Haiti), Jun 25 (AP) The first UN-backed contingent of foreign police arrived in Haiti on Tuesday, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.

A couple hundred police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, whose main international airport reopened in late May after gang violence forced it to close for nearly three months.

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It wasn't immediately known what the Kenyans' first assignment would be, but they will face violent gangs that control 80 per cent of Haiti's capital and have left more than 580,000 people across the country homeless as they pillage neighbourhoods in their quest to control more territory.

The Kenyans' arrival marks the fourth major foreign military intervention in Haiti. While some Haitians welcome their arrival, others view the force with caution, given that the previous intervention — the UN's 2004-2017 peacekeeping mission — was marred by allegations of sexual assault and the introduction of cholera. (AP)

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