US has frozen funding for UN-backed mission to quell gangs in Haiti, UN says
The US has frozen $13.3 million in funding for a UN-backed security mission in Haiti, led by Kenyan police, aimed at countering gangs controlling 85 per cent of Port-au-Prince. The move, part of a broader foreign aid freeze, worsens the mission’s already critical funding and staffing shortages. Haiti faces escalating violence, with over 5,600 killed last year, mass displacement, and rising gang control, prompting UN warnings of a possible total collapse.
The US has frozen $13.3 million in funding for a UN-backed security mission in Haiti, led by Kenyan police, aimed at countering gangs controlling 85 per cent of Port-au-Prince. The move, part of a broader foreign aid freeze, worsens the mission’s already critical funding and staffing shortages. Haiti faces escalating violence, with over 5,600 killed last year, mass displacement, and rising gang control, prompting UN warnings of a possible total collapse.
