The Kenyan police have landed in War-torn Haiti on a peacekeeping mission to help restore order in the Caribbean.
An AFP correspondent witnessed the first 400 cops arrive on the tarmac, and hundreds more are anticipated from Kenya and other nations.
Kenyan President William Ruto had ceremonially released the police a day earlier in Nairobi, describing it as a "historic" solidarity mission.
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However, on Tuesday, Kenya was also covered in violence, with demonstrators entering parliament demanding the president not sign the bill.
Kenya offered to send 1,000 police to stabilize Haiti alongside forces from several other countries, but the deployment has encountered persistent legal troubles.
The group comprises elite officers from the Rapid Deployment Unit, General Service Unit, Administration Police, and Kenya Police.
Haiti has long been rocked by gang violence. Still, conditions sharply worsened at the end of February when armed groups launched coordinated attacks in Port-au-Prince, saying they wanted to overthrow then-prime minister Ariel Henry.
Henry announced in early March that he would step down and hand over executive power to a transitional council named Garry Conille as the country's interim prime minister on May 29.
The violence in Port-au-Prince has affected food security and humanitarian aid access, with much of the city in the hands of gangs accused of abuses, including murder, rape, looting and kidnappings.
