U.S. supports Kenya-led mission in Haiti, Rubio says

New contingent of Kenyan police joins UN-backed mission to fight gangs in Haiti
A fourth contingent of Kenyan police have arrived in Haiti to help repel violent gangs as officials brushed off concerns of a halt in some U.S. funding to the U.N.
More Kenyan police arrive in Haiti to shore up security mission after US funding limbo
More than 100 Kenyan police arrived in Haiti's capital on Thursday to reinforce a security mission whose future has been in limbo, after the U.S. froze some funding before passing a waiver to unlock a separate batch of funds.
U.S. supports the Kenya-led mission in Haiti, Rubio says as more troops arrive
The United States is committed to working with the Kenya-led multinational security support mission in Haiti, but its numbers need increase to restore peace and stability to the country, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday.
More Kenyan Police Arrive in Haiti to Boost Security Mission
A Kenyan police officer adjusts the helmet of a colleague after arriving as part of a peace-keeping mission to tackle violence in Haiti, at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-au-Prince,
200 Kenyan police officers arrive at UN mission in Haiti
Two hundred Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on Thursday to join the United Nations-backed mission to fight gangs in the crisis-plagued Caribbean country. More than 600 Kenyan officers had already been stationed in Haiti as part of a multinational force of police officers and soldiers from other countries — including Jamaica,
Kenya deploys additional 144 police to Haiti
A new contingent of Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on Thursday to bolster a UN-backed security mission, AFP journalists observed, as the United States reiterated its support but called
Police from Kenya, helicopters from El Salvador arrive in Haiti to help fight gangs
A new contingent of 144 Kenyan police officers, including 24 women, arrived in Haiti on Thursday, February 6, 202,5 to beef up the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission. Their presence, along with a contingent of 70 military soldiers from El Salvador,
Children's bodies a 'battleground' in Haiti as sexual violence surges, UNICEF warns
More than a million people, over half of them children, are displaced within Haiti due to violence, U.N. data show.
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First Person: Bodies of children in Haiti have turned into ‘battlegrounds’
ARMED groups in Haiti are inflicting “unimaginable horrors” on children, turning their “bodies into battlegrounds”, according to the UN Children’s Fund ...
'Staggering' rise in sexual violence against children in Haiti, says UN
Aid organisations say gang control has led to a ten-fold increase in sexual violence towards children.
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Kenyan commander reassures continuation of mission in Haiti
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — The Commander-in-Chief of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MMSS) in Haiti, Godfrey Otunge, has dismissed claims that the United States (US) has suspended ...
US has frozen some funding for the UN-backed mission to quell gangs in Haiti, UN says
The United Nations says that the U.S. has given notice that it is halting funding to a U.N.-backed mission in Haiti tasked ...
Gangs attack a neighborhood in Haiti that's home to the country's elite
Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that’s home to most of the country’s elite and had been largely ...
As gangs prepare to attack Haiti’s capital, U.S. freezes critical aid for security mission
As hundreds of armed gang members, entrenched in the hills above Haiti’s capital, await orders to attack the last enclaves ...
Sexual violence against children soars in Haiti, says UN
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Sexual violence against children in violence-ravaged Haiti soared tenfold last year, the United Nations (UN) children’s agency said Friday, as gangs who control most of the ...