Germany Offers Bundeswehr Airlift Capacity to Gang Suppression Force

Germany's Bundeswehr (armed forces) offered air transport capacity to support the UN-backed Gang Suppression Force (GSF) in Haiti, HaitiLibre reported August 17, 2026, with equipment and troop-supply flights planned for GSF contributing nations — currently Chad, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Côte d'Ivoire, and Haiti — in the coming weeks. The offer adds a European logistics contributor to a force still filling out its authorized 5,550-person ceiling (roughly 1,000 personnel deployed as of the July 20 UN Security Council briefing).