Kenya seeks Dominican help with Haiti anti-gang mission

Kenyan Prime Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Diaspora Affairs Musalia Mudavadi (L) and Dominican Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez pose after signing bilateral agreements in Santo Domingo on May 12, 2025. [AFP]

Kenya asked the Dominican Republic on Monday for more support for a security mission in neighboring Haiti, where the African nation leads an under-resourced international force battling violent criminal gangs.

With backing notably from France, Canada, and the United States, the UN-approved Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) is meant to help Haiti's overwhelmed and outgunned police tackle gangs that control swaths of the poorest nation in the Americas.