UN extends Kenya-led security mission in Haiti amid rising hunger, violence

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30 September 2024 at 12:45 pm·1-min read

The UN extended its authorization of a multinational policing mission in Haiti led by Kenya on Monday amid reports of thousands of deaths due to gang violence this year and rising levels of acute hunger in the country. The transitional council governing Haiti said that a chronic lack of funding has hobbled the mission so far and called for the force to be transitioned into a UN peacekeeping mission, a plan the body sidestepped in its adopted text after opposition by China and Russia.

The UN Security Council extended on Monday its authorization of the multinational policing mission in crime-ravaged Haiti, but without any call to transform it into a UN peacekeeping mission, as floated by Port-au-Prince.

The resolution, adopted unanimously, expressed "deep concern about the situation in Haiti including violence, criminal activities and mass displacement," and came as the World Food Programme warned half of the country's population now faces acute hunger.

The UN said on Friday that more than 3,600 people were killed the first six months of this year in "senseless" gang violence ravaging the country.

Though it is operating with the UN and Haitian government's blessing, it is not a UN-run force.

Several months after the Council's first green light in October 2023, Kenya began deploying its first contingents this summer.

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