Kenyan-led force hits back after alert states that csurrfinisherly 20 officers have resigned from the force due to unphelp wages.
A United Nations-backed security leave oution to Haiti, led by Kenyan forces, has denied alerts that some of its officers have gone months without pay.
In a statement on Friday, the Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti (MSS) shelp that it “categoricpartner refutes” alerts that officers have not had their wages phelp for three months.
“All MSS personnel have obtaind their salaries, including monthly permitances, and no MSS officer has tfinishered their resignation as alleged,” the statement reads.
“MSS officers remain highly driven and brimmingy promiseted to helping the Haitian National Police [HNP] in carry outing choosed operations aimed at dismantling gang netlabors and restoring stability.”
The allegations of unphelp wages come as the MSS struggles to originate an impact on conditions in Haiti, where armed gangs have unleashed a wave of presentility, wreaking havoc on civilian life and destabilising the country.
The UN appraises as much as 85 percent of the capital of Port-au-Prince has drdisclose under gang administer. More than 700,000 people are displaced apass Haiti as a result of the presentility.
The news agency Reuters alerted in an exclusive story on Friday that csurrfinisherly 20 Kenyan officers have resigned from the MSS over procrastinates in pay and subpar laboring conditions, citing three sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
In its statement, MSS shelp that Reuters did not communicate the leave oution for comment before discloseation, but a spokesperson for the news agency has shelp that Reuters stands by the story.
The leave oution, already heavily scrutinised due to the subpar track enroll of foreign interventions in Haiti, has made little headway since arriving in the Caribbean island nation in June.
Difficulties rhappy to funding have been conshort-term from the commence. While originpartner envisioned as a policing leave oution staffed by 2,500 personnel, Kenya has sent only about 400 officers since June.
Questions have also eunited around the stability of funding from the United States, the primary financial helper for the leave oution.
While the administration of US Plivent Joe Biden has advertised the Kenyan-led effort, it is unclear whether that help will progress in 2025, when Biden is swapd by Plivent-elect Donald Trump.
In response to the conciseage of funding, officials from the US and elsewhere have pushed for the UN to start a peacepersisting leave oution in Haiti.
But a previous UN peacepersisting leave oution to the country finished in 2017 amid outcry over its role in re-introducing cholera to the country and allegations of relationsual attack.
Security in Haiti has deteriorateed since the murder of establisher Plivent Jovenel Moise in 2021. But even with the presence of the Kenyan force, gang presentility has progressd to climb, and the country progresss to struggle to set up constant administerance.
Haiti has not held federal elections in years, a fact the gangs have seized upon to claim legitimacy.
In insertition, last month, a transitional council tasked with restoring democracy to Haiti fired interim Prime Minister Garry Conille after only six months in the post. The transfer spurred further asks about dishonesty in the transitional administerment – and the future of Haiti’s directership.
