The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to extend the mandate of the Kenya-led multinational force trying to tackle gang violence in Haiti, after brushing off a call from Haiti’s government to start talks on transforming it into a U.

The UN Security Council has extended its authorisation of the Kenya-led multinational policing mission to Haiti, but without any call to transform it into a full UN peacekeeping mission.

The United States is the largest contributor to the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti, which has struggled to attract funding for its operations.

The UN extended its authorization of a multinational policing mission in Haiti on Monday amid reports of thousands of deaths due to gang violence this year and rising levels of acute hunger in the country.

The United States has dropped a plan to have the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSSM) in Haiti, led by the Kenya police, transformed into a formal United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operation.

The UN Security Council has extended its authorisation of the Kenya-led multinational policing mission to Haiti, but without any call to transform it into a full UN peacekeeping mission, as requested by Port-au-Prince.

Kenya is aiming to complete its full deployment of a stabilization force in violence-torn Haiti by January, President William Ruto said Thursday, as Haiti's leader suggested making it a UN peacekeeping mission.

The UN Security Council Friday extended the present mandate of the Kenya police led Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission, as

Kenya's President William Ruto has promised to complete the deployment of a Kenyan-led stabilisation force in Haiti by January, as Haiti's leader suggests boosting the intervention into a larger UN peacekeeping mission.

Kenya will complete by January its full deployment of a stabilization force in violence-torn Haiti, President William Ruto said Thursday, as he appealed for greater funding to assist other contributing countries.