May 12 – The best diplomats from Kenya and the Dominican Republic met on Monday in Santo Domingo and called on the international community to fulfill and expand their promised funding for the UN security mission to neighboring Haiti.
Why is it important to Dominican Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez and his Kenyan counterpart Musalia Mudavadi warned that multinational security support (MSS) in Haiti is trying to effectively fight deteriorating gang violence due to lack of financing and logistics support.
Kenya deployed officers into MSS in June 2024. The mission includes approximately 1,000 employees, approximately 75% of Kenya.
In the first three months of 2025, more than 1600 people were killed in Haiti and according to UN estimates, more than 1 million were displaced.
Both ministers “acknowledged that the mission was unable to be more efficient due to lack of financial and material sources necessary for the complete and complete deployment of the soldiers located here”, according to an official statement.
They urged the international community to “fulfill the posts offered and even increase them so that the mission could work fully”.
The context of heavily armed gangs has expanded their control in Haiti this year because MSS and local police are trying to hold up growing violence.
The mission led by Kenya and the permitted UN Security Council in 2023 remains only partially deployed due to unfulfilled financing obligations. (Reporting by Natalia Siniawski; further reports of Harold Isaac; Editing Leslie Adler)
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