UN Security Council to vote on future of foreign Haiti force

THE UN Security Council will vote on Tuesday on whether to beef up a UN-backed security mission in gang-dominated Haiti into a fullfledged force with troops.

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Currently just 1 000 police officers, mostly from Kenya, are deployed in Haiti under the Multinational Security Mission (MSS) to support the overwhelmed Haitian police in their fight against rampant gang violence.

But the mission, which was approved in 2023, has had deeply mixed results.

"Every day, innocent lives are snuffed out by bullets, fire and fear," Laurent Saint-Cyr, who heads the Haitian Transitional Presidential Council, told the UN's signature diplomatic gathering last week.

"Entire neighbourhoods are disappearing, forcing more than a million people into internal exile and reducing to nothing memories, investments, and infrastructure.