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U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin met Kenyan President William Ruto at the Pentagon for bilateral talks, even while Austin continued to undergo treatment for prostate cancer since late last year.
U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin met Kenyan President William Ruto at the Pentagon for bilateral talks, even while Austin continued to undergo treatment for prostate cancer since late last year.
Austin praised Kenya for agreeing to send troops to Haiti when so few other countries have agreed to do so. Earlier, Biden announced his intention to designate Kenya as a major non-NATO ally. Diplomatic analysts term this approach as an acknowledgment of the growing security partnership between the two countries.
Kenya has grown from a regional partner that has long cooperated with U.S. counterterrorism operations on the continent to a major global influence. Kenya extends its reach into the Western Hemisphere as it will be the first sub-Saharan African country to receive the status.
Some 1,000 Kenyan police officers are set to arrive soon in Haiti, part of a multilateral security support mission that aims to help quell gang violence. Other countries expected to back up Kenyan forces include the Bahamas, Barbados, Benin, Chad, and Bangladesh.
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Ruto’s plan to involve Kenyan police in a crisis thousands of miles away has also been met with some opposition in Nairobi, including legal challenges aimed at blocking the deployment of police forces and long-standing concerns over alleged abuses by police.
