Kenya awaiting parliamentary approval to deploy UN-backed anti-gang force to Haiti

Kenya awaiting parliamentary approval to deploy UN-backed anti-gang force to Haiti

Kenyan lawmakers said Wednesday that parliamentary approval is required before the deployment of police to the Kenya-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti to combat gang violence that was approved by the U.N. Security Council this week. Opposition lawmaker Anthony Oluoch told a session of Parliament's lower house that the conditions for foreign deployment hadn't been met under the National Police Act. He also said that the country's security needs "…