{"id":31197,"date":"2026-04-09T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31197"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T09:54:35","slug":"kenya-disputes-un-probe-accusing-haiti-mission-of-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-disputes-un-probe-accusing-haiti-mission-of-sexual-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya disputes UN probe accusing Haiti mission of sexual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kenya has disputed a United Nations (UN) report saying an investigation had found substantiated allegations of \u200bsexual abuse involving members of an UN, backed anti-gang \u200cforce in Haiti that is staffed mostly by Kenyan police officers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In a report dated February 16 and first reported \u200bon last week, the UN said four allegations \u200bof sexual exploitation and abuse from last \u2060year against the force had been substantiated by \u200bits Human Rights Office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In a letter to UN Secretary-General \u200bAntonio Guterres this week, Kenya&#8217;s Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi said the allegations had been looked into by a Kenyan \u200bboard of inquiry and &#8220;found to be unsubstantiated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Investigations conducted \u200bwere impartial and shared with all relevant stakeholders, including UN human \u200crights \u2060offices,&#8221; Mudavadi wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A UN representative in Kenya did not immediately reply to a request for comment on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kenya supplies most of the personnel to the \u200broughly 1000-strong \u200bforce, which \u2060first deployed in June 2024 to combat the gangs that control most of \u200bHaiti&#8217;s capital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">There were widespread sexual abuse \u200band exploitation \u2060accusations, including allegations of child victims, against UN Peacekeepers under the\u00a0 UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti, Mission in Haiti mission in Haiti from 2004 \u2060to \u200b2017. Only a few peacekeepers \u200bwere prosecuted by their home countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23672,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-31197","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Kenya has disputed United Nations report ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31197","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\/31197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31198,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31197\/revisions\/31198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}