NAIROBI, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Kenya said Thursday that 144 additional police officers to the Multinational Security Support Mission have arrived in Haiti to fight gang violence.

The fourth contingent of the Kenyan police unit on Thursday left the country for Haiti's Capital Port Au Prince to join their counterparts who are part of the multinational security support mission in the Caribbean nation.

A third contingent of Kenyan police have arrived in Haiti to help repel violent gangs as officials brushed off concerns of a halt in some U.S. funding to the U.N.-backed mission

The United States has exempted the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti from a funding freeze impacting US-funded international aid initiatives.

The United States said Wednesday it was making an exemption in President Donald Trump's aid freeze to support a security mission in troubled Haiti, although some assistance was put on

Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave the green light to $40.7 million in assistance to the Haitian National Police and the Multinational Security Support Mission. Other funds are seemingly frozen

The United States Embassy in Nairobi has retracted an order that was made by President Donald Trump to remove support from the Multinational Security Mission in Haiti. In a statement, the embassy noted that the US would continue to support the mission.

The United States has frozen its financial contributions to a United Nations fund for a multinational security support mission in Haiti, a UN spokesperson said, a move that would stop $13.3 million in pending aid.