More than $13 million in U.S. funding for an international security force helping fight armed gangs in Haiti has been frozen under President Donald Trump's 90-day pause on foreign aid, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

The United Nations says that the U.S. has given notice that it is halting some funding to a U.N.-backed mission in Haiti tasked with fighting gangs trying to seize full control of the country’s capita

As hundreds of armed gang members, entrenched in the hills above Haiti’s capital, await orders to attack the last enclaves not currently under their control, the multinational fight to end their terror is being impeded by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign aid.

The US has notified the United Nations that it is freezing some funding to a UN-backed mission in Haiti tasked with fighting gangs trying to seize back control of the capital, Port-au-Prince, the

UN secretary-general spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric confirmed that the US will freeze KSh 1.6 billion in funding for the Haiti mission led by the Kenya police.

The United States has issued a stop order on funding for the Kenya-led Haiti Multinational Security Support Mission, plunging the UN-backed campaign into a funding crisis.

Even a three month stop has very severe negative consequences around the world and in Haiti, for saving people’s lives and for preserving U.S. credibility, U.S. soft power.”

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 hold. "The United States has not paused all assistance for the Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti,