UN-backed foreign police arrive in Haiti to face gangs

Hundreds of Kenyan police officers have arrived to take on gangs in Haiti (AP)

The first UN-backed contingent of foreign police has arrived in Haiti, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence.

Around 200 police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of Port-au-Prince, whose main international airport reopened in late May after gang violence forced it to close for nearly three months.