The Kenyan government has announced that police officers who are to be deployed to Haiti will start taking French lessons.
The Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary, Alfred Mutua has announced that the 1,000 police officers who will be deployed to Haiti have started learning French.
The initiative is part of the plans established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to address the language barrier between Kenyan police personnel and the local population.
The two official languages of Haiti are French and Haitian Creole.
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The government of Kenya has started the planning logistics, required equipment for the police, and psychological preparedness for the personnel.