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Kenya ready to face Haiti gangs

Kenya says it's confident it can help Haiti deal with gangsters. Foreign minister Alfred Mutua says the troops to be deployed are in training and learning French.

Kenya says it's confident the deployment of hundreds of its police to Haiti by January will end gang warfare in the country. Last year Haiti's government appealed for help because of spiralling gang violence. Kenya's Foreign Minister Alfred Mutua says it will be an intervention force to disarm what he called the "thugs and the gangs". So does Kenya really have the capabilities to help end Haiti's violence and how do Kenyan's feel about this deployment?

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