Kenya Says Trust Funding Haiti Mission Sufficient, Confident of U.S. Waiver

Kenya has assured of sufficient funds to support the operations of the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti, despite the United States freezing its funding.

The US had committed USD15 million to the UN Trust Fund supporting the UN-backed mission in the Caribbean nation, of which USD1.7 million had already been utilized, leaving USD13.3 million now frozen.

Despite this pause in US funding National Security Advisor Ambassador Monica Juma stated that the MSS mission…