Kenya has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti to provide backup to an understaffed security mission in the Caribbean country where spiralling gang violence has displaced more than a million people,

Another over 200 police officers from Kenya arrived Saturday in Haiti for the United Nations-backed mission led by the East African country to battle violent gangs that have taken over parts of the troubled Caribbean country.

During a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Rubio told his fellow U.S. Senators that there is no easy answer in Haiti, where violence by armed gangs continues unabated.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a multinational force to curb gang violence plaguing the Caribbean nation, Kenya's interior minister said on Saturday. According to the minister, Kipchumba Murkomen, the police officers departed from Kenya on Friday.

Suriname Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin has the backing of the Caribbean Community for the top post at the Organization of American States.

The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement within Haiti has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people.

An additional 217 Kenyan police officers landed in Haiti on Saturday to bolster a multinational force seeking to restore order to the violence-ridden Caribbean island.

The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement in Haiti, largely caused by gang violence, has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people — a record in the Caribbean nation.

Kenyan police officers arrived Saturday in Haiti as part of a multinational force to curb gang violence in the Caribbean nation.

Several high-profile Haitian politicians trying to find a way out of a corruption scandal that has the country’s leadership mired in political infighting are proposing a reconfiguration of the nine-member Transitional Presidential Council in hopes of saving the shaky process.

Kenya said Saturday it was sending another 217 police officers to Haiti to bolster a multinational force seeking to restore order to the violence-ridden Caribbean island.

Foreign ministers from Caribbean nations and Benin on Wednesday discussed sending troops to Haiti, saying stability in the strife-torn nation was symbolic to "all black people" around the world.