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Canada, Benin, France and Jamaica have offered support to a U.N.-backed international security force aimed at tackling rampant gang violence in Haiti, according to a statement from the United...

By Simon Lewis RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Canada, Benin, France and Jamaica have offered support to a U.N.-backed international security force aimed at tackling rampant gang violence in Haiti, according to a statement from the United States, which ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Canada, Benin, France and Jamaica have offered support to a U.N.-backed international security force aimed at tackling rampant gang violence in Haiti, according to a statement from the United States, which co-hosted a meeting on the mission with Brazil. Washington has pledged $200 million to fund the Multinational Security Support (MSS), which Kenya stepped forward to lead last year. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gathered officials in Rio de Janeiro, where fo...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Canada, Benin, France and Jamaica have offered support to a U.N.-backed international security force aimed at tackling rampant gang violence in Haiti, according to a statement from the United States, which co-hosted a meeting on the mission with Brazil.

Months after Kenya promised police troops to Haiti, nothings has happened | Opinion

In addition to funds, the security mission also needs equipment and according to some expats, more bodies. For now, the mission is expected to have 2,500 officers fielded from Kenya, Jamaica, The Bahamas and other Caribbean and African nations.

Government officials from Haiti, the United States and Kenya have wrapped up a planning conference for the deployment of a multinational security mission to help Haitian police deal with dangerous criminal gangs, but just how soon forces will arrive in the volatile Caribbean nation remains unknown.

The second US-Uruguay Annual Bilateral Inter-Ministerial Dialogue meeting is to take place Thursday in Washington, D.C. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian A. Nichols and Uruguayan Foreign Minister Omar Paganini will co-chair the dialogue.

At least five members of a rogue security brigade seeking the ouster of Haiti’s prime minister died Wednesday in an exchange of gunfire with police, who spent a third day beating back violent protests across the country.

Acting Deputy Secretary Nuland’s Meeting with Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Defense Duale