When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to quell gang violence, hopes were high.

Gang violence surged in Haiti, with a paroxysm of bloodshed leaving at least 150 dead and driving the charity Doctors Without Borders to suspend its operations in the country. Haiti has been racked by armed groups who operate with impunity, unrestrained by a government that controls little of the nation’s actual territory.

Haiti’s airport is temporarily closing as gangs were attempting to take control of it, the US Embassy reported Monday.

A vital humanitarian organization said it will suspend activities in Haiti’s capital following a “series of threats” by local police.