{"id":147880,"date":"2023-09-29T11:15:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147880"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:28:42","slug":"the-u-s-and-kenya-sign-defense-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147880","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. and Kenya sign defense agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kenya agreed to lead a peace keeping force in Haiti to help address gang violence. The agreement that the U.S. and Kenya signed will guide their defense relations over the next five years. Kenya is battling al-Shabab, a terrorist group, and has said that it would send 1,000 security officers to Haiti.<\/p>\n

From the Marine Corps Times:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Kenya’s Defense Minister Aden Duale signed the accord at a meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The agreement guides the countries’ defense relations for the next five years as the war in East Africa against the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab extremist group intensifies.<\/p>\n

Austin thanked Kenya for volunteering to take the leadership of the Haiti multi-national force and reiterated that the U.S government would work with Congress to secure the $100 million in funding that it pledged on the sidelines of the U.N General Assembly.<\/p>\n

Austin said the rest of the world ought to follow Kenya’s commitment to global security and “step up and provide more personnel, equipment, support, training and funding.”<\/p>\n

Kenya has pledged to send 1,000 security officers to Haiti to combat gang violence in a mission that is pending the U.N Security Council’s formal approval but has received support from the U.N. and U.S.<\/p>\n

Duale said his country is ready to deploy to Haiti and cited Kenya’s “very long history of global peacekeeping” in Kosovo, neighboring Somalia and Congo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Marine Corps Times provides additional information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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