It's not about Africa, but apparently the headlines say some kids were killed by police drones that were aiming at a gang leader.
The attack comes as security firm, Vectus Global, owned by former US Navy Seal Erik Prince, is due to deploy nearly 200 people to Haiti as part of a one-year deal to quell gang violence.
The private contractors are expected to reinforce an underfunded and understaffed police department working with Kenyan police leading a United Nations-backed mission struggling to fight gangs.
BBC raticle about Kenya sending police to Haiti, dated 10 2023.
and this article from a Kenyan news source 23 Sept 2025 says they are due to come home but that the US is planning a large peace keeping force.
US Announces Plans For Bigger Security Force in Haiti Days Before Expiry of Kenya's Mission
The United States has pledged its support for the transition of the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission(MSS) in Haiti barely two weeks before its expiry on October 2.
Speaking during a high-level meeting on Haiti hosted by Kenya and the US on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Monday, the US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau confirmed that it had kicked off efforts to establish a larger force to continue the mission. According to Landau, the US and Panama had worked with Haiti to introduce a UN Security Council resolution to establish a larger gang-suppression for.ce with a broader mandate and a UN support office for Haiti. As such, the US had called on all its partners to join them in pressing for this critical resolution before the MSS mission mandate expired on October ... This new force would reportedly consist of 5,500 personnel, more than five times the size of the current MSS....All 32 members of the Organisation of American States have also signed onto a joint statement calling for the urgent passing of this resolution.”
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