By REUTERS More by this AuthorBenin has offered 2,000 troops to support a planned Kenyan-led international force to help Haitian national police fight armed gangs, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a press conference on Monday. The United Nations authorised the mission in October, a year after Haiti's unelected government requested it. She said some Caribbean countries that had pledged support had called for more Francophone nations to join the effort. Kenya, which has pledged to lead the mission, offered 1,000 police officers, but a local court later barred the move as unconstitutional. So far public offers to support the security force, which is based on voluntary contributions, have come largely from developing nations in Africa and the Caribbean.
