Kenya and Haiti urge partners to boost support for peacekeeping mission amid a funding shortfall
Associated PressOCT 2024
It's hard to understand the reasoning leading China and Russia to oppose an official UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti. As the understaffed and underfunded MSS has failed to address gang violence in Haiti, this transition has become the only hope for the Caribbean country.
Though a new UN peacekeeping operation would secure enough funding and troops for the mission in Haiti, this move is by no means a silver bullet in the fight against gangs — and it could prove deleterious to such an effort. Given the situation on the ground and past experiences in the country, deploying blue helmets to Haiti would be a mistake.
There's a 60% chance that Haiti will experience a civil war before 2036, according to the Metaculus prediction community.