Kenya backs Haiti's call for peacekeeping mission, advisor says

FILE PHOTO: A woman and three children flee their home from gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 20, 2024. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File Photo

(Reuters) - A top Kenyan security advisor said on Wednesday that her nation backs calls from Haiti for the United Nations to consider turning a current international security mission in the Caribbean nation into a formal U.N. peacekeeping mission.

Monica Juma, Kenya's presidential national security advisor, told a U.N. Security Council meeting that Kenya, which is leading the current mission, believed a formal peacekeeping mission could bring more resources to confront an escalating gang conflict.