Description: Approximately 100 Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti to prevent further advances from armed gangs and the enlargement of the humanitarian crisis in the country. The deployment arrived on the auspices of the seizure of funding from the US to the UN’s mission in the country which attempted to succumb the gangs and end the violence in the country which has displaced more than 1 million people since the start in 2020. The Kenyan police would assist the military troops already on ground in Port au Prince as the gangs seized control of the capital of up 90% of its territory. US funding is unlikely to arrive anytime soon as President Trump’s executive order for cutting foreign aid plunged the country into more violence.
Impact: The Haiti gang crisis already entered its fifth year and its threatening to become a regional security and humanitarian problem of a larger scale. The seizure of US funding would only encourage continued armed fighting between the country’s security and international forces and gang members. The UN mission in the country has had no to little impact as the Haitian gangs had amplified supply of US manufactured weapons and established effective ground and operational control through violence. Kenyan forces have battled the gangs with also little to no effect. The crisis in the country could soon become largely prolonged as international diplomatic and humanitarian efforts are limited at the time.