The Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission joined Haitian police in sustained operations in Kenscoff — one of the capital’s last safe areas — and in parts of Pétion-Ville in 2025, attempting to hold the security perimeter of the areas that remained outside full gang control while creating space for limited civilian activity including school attendance and market operations. The operations represented some of the most sustained joint security activity of the mission’s deployment.
In areas where MSS and Haitian police maintained consistent presence, conditions improved measurably. Schools that had been closed reopened cautiously. Market activity resumed partially. Residents who had been confined to their homes ventured out for essential activities. The improvements, while fragile, demonstrated that security presence could produce real benefits for communities that had been living in fear.
The mission’s human rights framework was noted as a positive development by monitoring organizations. The MSS had developed accountability mechanisms including a complaints hotline and internal monitoring that represented significant improvements over the accountability frameworks of previous international security missions in Haiti. As of the reporting date, the UN had documented no human rights violations by MSS personnel — a record that stood in contrast to the troubled human rights legacy of MINUSTAH.
However, the scale of the mission remained its fundamental limitation. With fewer than 1,000 personnel, the MSS could protect specific areas and conduct specific operations but could not address the citywide security crisis that gang networks had created across most of Port-au-Prince and expanding areas beyond. The authorization of the Gang Suppression Force with up to 5,550 personnel offered the prospect of a mission of genuinely adequate scale; whether that scale would be actually deployed depended on the funding and political commitments of international partners.