Two hundred Kenyan police officers arrived in Port-au-Prince on Thursday to reinforce a security mission whose future has been in limbo, after the U.S. froze some funding before passing a waiver to unlock a separate batch of funds.
The U.N. warned this week that the U.S. had frozen more than $13 million in funding for the security force that it had already paid into the U.N.'s dedicated fund, as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's 90-day pause on foreign aid.
The State Department later said that Rubio had approved waivers on $40.7 million in foreign assistance to the Haitian National Police and the security mission.
That assistance will not, however, go into the dedicated U.N. fund, a State Department spokesperson said.
Marco Rubio on Haiti
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking from Santo Domingo alongside Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader, acknowledged that the current mission, backed by the United Nations, was not enough to solve the current crisis.
"The solution for Haiti is in the hands of the Haitian people, in the hands of the Haitian elite," Rubio said. "But we will help, we cannot ignore the problems there."
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