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Weekly Report - 01 October 2026 (WR-26-39)
HAITI: Shorter extension for GSF mandate
“An important advance in efforts to re-establish security”. This was Haiti’s response to the 29 September vote by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to extend by a further six months the mandate of the 5,500-member Gang Suppression Force (GSF), a non-UN multinational mission tasked with combating armed gangs, first approved a year ago. This means that the GSF, which had replaced the under-resourced Kenya-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS), will remain in Haiti until 31 March 2027, during which time the country’s first elections in a decade are scheduled to take place. The first round of the elections is set for 13 December. The extension of the GSF’s mandate is significantly shorter than the two years which Haiti had reportedly sought, and it comes amid little sign of improvement in the country’s dire security situation, fanning doubts as to whether the election will in fact go ahead [WR-26-38].
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