The United Nations Security Council will vote on Tuesday September 30, 2025 on whether to beef up a UN-backed security mission in gang-dominated Haiti into a full-fledged force with troops.
It is expected the UNSC will extend the mission by three months pending further discussions on its operations at large, officials said.
The Council could also vote to turn the mission into a full-fledged force.
Currently, close 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.
Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti in June 2024 for the mission to fight criminal gangs there.
Kenya leads the mission.
The mission is facing many challenges which include lack of enough resources.
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 neighborhoods are disappearing, forcing more than a million people into internal exile and reducing to nothing memories, investments, and infrastructure.
“This is the face of Haiti today, a country at war, a contemporary Guernica, a human tragedy on America’s doorstep — just a four-hour flight from here,” he said.