Kenya said Saturday it was sending another 217 police officers to Haiti to bolster a multinational force seeking to restore order to the violence-ridden Caribbean island. "The 217 officers will reinforce the first batch of 400 officers who were deployed last year to the Caribbean nation to restore peace,

There are still significant challenges with the funding that were already there with the Biden administration.”

Some 217 more Kenyan police officers left for Haiti Saturday morning to join an operation aimed at containing criminal gangs in the Caribbean country. The officers from various units of the National Police Service were flagged off by top interior and foreign affairs officials aboard a commercial Kenya Airways flight.

The Kenya-led security support mission to Haiti is, at present, unfit for purpose. More than six months after deploying to help police wrest back control, rampant gangs have gained more territory and power while access to vital humanitarian aid for desperate civilians has dwindled.