Prime Minister Garry Conille formally requested an expansion of the Kenyan-led security mission’s mandate and force size in August 2024, acknowledging that the mission as currently deployed was insufficient to address the scale of Haiti’s security crisis and calling on international partners to provide the additional personnel and resources needed to make the mission effective. The formal request reflected the transitional government’s assessment that restoring security required significantly more international support than was currently being provided.
Conille’s request was backed by specific proposals: an increase in the total mission force to the authorized ceiling of 2,500 and beyond, enhanced equipment including armored vehicles and aerial surveillance capacity, and expansion of the operational mandate to include more proactive anti-gang operations rather than primarily defensive and support functions.
Kenyan officials who were leading the mission expressed sympathy for the request while emphasizing the funding constraints that limited their ability to deploy additional personnel. Each additional officer deployed to Haiti required specific financial support that had not been committed. The gap between the mission’s authorized size and its actual deployment was primarily a funding gap, not a political one — countries willing to contribute were constrained by the absence of an adequate financial support package.
The United States responded to Conille’s request by announcing additional financial and logistical commitments, but the scale of additional resources fell short of what would be needed to bring the mission to full strength. The pattern of commitments that did not translate into rapid deployments continued to be the central frustration of the international security assistance effort.