Kenya and Haiti urge partners to boost support for peacekeeping mission amid a funding shortfall

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Kenya Prepares to Dispatch More Police to Haiti as Gang Violence Roils Communities

At a meeting of the UN Security Council arranged on Wednesday at their request, China and Russia expressed their opposition to transforming the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti into a UN peacekeeping mission.

HaitiLibre.com

Representatives for both countries alleged that conditions on the ground would expose peacekeepers to great security risks, with China's Geng Shuang calling for the council to focus on enable the MSS to fulfill its recently renewed mandate.

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This comes as Ecuador and the US put a revised draft resolution to convert the mission under Kenya's leadership to a blue helmet operation under silence procedure last week, following an official request by Haiti's transitional government.

Security Council Report

According to the latest figures, Haiti has seen over 4.5K gang-related deaths this year amid surges in violence in Port-au-Prince. On top of that, an estimated 700K people, half of them children, are currently internally displaced in the country.

The Haitian Times

France 24

Situation has worsened there since Nov. 11 as well-armed groups push for full control of the capital despite the presence of the MSS, which has deployed only about 400 of the thousands of troops that other countries pledged.

Reuters

Al Jazeera

The Miami Herald

Haiti asks for UN peacekeeping mission as gangs' expansion worries leadership council

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There's a 60% chance that Haiti will experience a civil war before 2036, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

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