Overview
- Kenya lodged a formal protest with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, arguing a UN report misstates findings on alleged sexual abuse by its Haiti deployment.
- The UN document A/80/644, dated February 16, 2026 and released in early April, reports four confirmed cases tied to Kenyan personnel, and UN officials have not publicly answered Kenya’s protest.
- Nairobi says a Kenyan Board of Inquiry reviewed the 2025 allegations, found them unsubstantiated, received no formal complaints, and shared its results with UN human rights offices and Haitian authorities.
- The government directed its permanent missions in Geneva and New York to seek corrections, saying the report harms the reputation of the Multinational Security Support force.
- Kenya supplies most of a roughly 1,000-strong contingent that first deployed in June 2024, and the UN-backed operation is transitioning from the MSS to a new Haitian Gang Suppression Force.