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.

A third 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.

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 for a "new direction.

Latest deployment raises total number of Kenyan personnel in Haiti to 800, moving closer to target of 1,000 officers under UN-backed mission

This now brings the total number of Kenyan police in Haiti to 744. The first, second, and third contingent of police comprised of 600 police officers.

A January 5, 2025 decree that the United States had frozen further funding to the Kenya-led Haiti peacekeeping mission did not come as a surprise as the Donald Trump 2.0 administration has signed numerous executive orders clipping multiple overseas aid programmes.

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.

As he visits the Dominican Republic on the final stop of his five-day overseas mission to the region, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is sending strong assurances that the Trump administration is not shutting down the United Nations-authorized and heavily U.