The US has delivered at least 600 assorted guns to the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti boosting ongoing operations against criminal gangs in the Caribbean nation. The donation made on Monday, February 10 also included nine pickups, two trucks, two excavators, two armoured loaders and tens of bullets.

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 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.

The Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSSM) in Haiti has been given a significant boost, despite recent challenges. Communication from the office of the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs dated Wednesday,

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

Kenya has suffered a major blow following the United States’ decision to cut funding, amounting to more than $13 million (Ksh1.7 billion), for the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti.

UN secretary-general spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric confirmed that the US will freeze KSh 1.6 billion in funding for the Haiti mission led by the Kenya police.

The United States has issued a stop order on funding for the Kenya-led Haiti Multinational Security Support Mission, plunging the UN-backed campaign into a funding crisis.

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.