section_path: History (since 2023)/2024/Multinational intervention
section_name: Multinational intervention
paragraph_text: Multinational intervention
  
  The United States has pledged $200 million to the international police force approved by the UN and an additional $100 million in humanitarian aid. Canada announced $123 million to support Haiti, including $80.5 million for the mission. As of March 2024, the U.N. indicated that $78 million had been formally pledged, of which only $10.8 million was deposited, by Canada and France.
  
  The US military began flying cargo planes into the Port-au-Prince airport on 23 April and by mid-May had transported over 500 tons of material, including equipment for the Haitian National Police, medical equipment, and food. On 27 May, the arrival of the first contingent of Kenyan forces, which had been rescheduled for the end of May, was again delayed.
  
  On 26 June 2024, Kenya's first contingent of 400 elite police officers landed in Port-au-Prince's international airport after months of delay.
  
  In October 2024, the 400 Kenyan officers had been joined by two dozen from Jamaica, but the numbers fell far short of the 2,500 pledged by various countries, including Chad, Benin, Bangladesh and Barbados. Kenyan President William Ruto and Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille met in Nairobi, and said Kenya would deploy 600 additional officers the next month. They called for more international funding, in addition to the $85 million in pledges to the U.N. for the mission, with $68 million received. The Kenyan commander in Haiti said the fight against the gangs "is winnable" although they still controlled up to 80% of the capital, and civilian vigilante groups continued to fight back. In early October the U.N. Security Council extended the mandate of the Kenya-led multinational force, though declined to transform it into a U.N. peacekeeping mission.