{"id":29361,"date":"2026-03-20T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29361"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:31:30","slug":"chad-plans-to-send-800-security-personnel-to-haiti","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/chad-plans-to-send-800-security-personnel-to-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad plans to send 800 security personnel to Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Chad intends to deploy 800 police officers and gendarmes to Haiti this year to participate in an international force \u200bto help Haiti&#8217;s police fight powerful armed gangs, a \u200cSenior Chadian Police official told <em>Reuters.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Chadian forces are expected to arrive by June after receiving training from &#8220;European and American partners&#8221;, said the official, who \u200brequested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak \u200bto the media.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dominican Republic Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez said this week \u2060that the United Nations, backed Gang Suppression Force would reach its full \u200bcapacity of 5 500 by October and that Kenyan police who deployed \u200bto Haiti under an earlier model of the force should withdraw gradually.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Alvarez, who spoke after a meeting with US officials, said the forces from Chad \u200bwere being trained in the United States (US), though a State Department Spokesperson \u200bdenied that.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We thank the Government of Chad for their pledged contribution to the \u200cGang \u2060Suppression Force. Chadian troops are not training in the US,&#8221; the Spokesperson said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Gang Suppression Force was introduced as a larger successor to the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support mission, but no \u200bsignificant deployments have \u200barrived since its \u2060approval last September.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The force is currently made up of mostly Kenyan police, as well as smaller \u200bnumbers from a handful of countries in Central America \u200band \u2060the Caribbean.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29363,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-29361","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Chad intends to deploy 800 police officers to Haiti","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29364,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29361\/revisions\/29364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}