Although this deal focuses on Nairobi's efforts to fight al-Shabaab, it also enhances Kenya's role on the global geopolitical stage by elevating Nairobi to a leadership role in the international mission to stabilize violence-plagued Haiti. The US and Kenya are strengthening their partnership, which will make the world safer.
There are concerns about the legitimacy of any foreign intervention in Haiti, which is on the minds of human rights advocates and security analysts alike. All eyes will be on this mission as Kenyan forces enter a Caribbean nation that has a painful legacy of colonization and imperial intervention.