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The Unit­ed States and Pana­ma are urg­ing the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil to au­tho­rize a 5,550-mem­ber force with the pow­er to de­tain gang mem­bers in Haiti, to help stop the es­ca­lat­ing vi­o­lence.

The two coun­tries out­lined their pro­pos­al to trans­form the Kenya-led multi­na­tion­al force now de­ployed in the Caribbean na­tion in­to a much larg­er force in a draft res­o­lu­tion to the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil ob­tained Wednes­day by The As­so­ci­at­ed Press.

The first Kenyans ar­rived in Haiti in June 2024. and the force was sup­posed to have 2,500 troops, but it has been plagued by a lack of fund­ing, and its cur­rent strength is be­low 1,000.