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Haiti wonders what's next as gang violence surges and the push for a UN peacekeeping mission flops
When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to tackle gang violence, hopes were high. Coordinated gang attacks on prisons, police stations and the main international airport had crippled the country’s capital and forced the prime minister to resign,
Why Haiti’s gangs are gaining ground despite the presence of an international armed force
Shortly before Haiti’s new ruling presidential council took office earlier this year in a deal brokered by Washington and the Caribbean Community, one of its incoming members discussed the plan to take back control of Port-au-Prince from armed gangs and ...
UN mulls Haiti peacekeeping force as gangs ramp up warfare
Diplomats at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday voiced broad support for converting a security mission helping Haitian police fight escalating gang warfare into a formal U.N. peacekeeping mission,
UN Weighs Peacekeeping Mission for Haiti Amid Escalating Gang Violence and Political Instability
As gangs escalate violence in Haiti, the UN Security Council debates upgrading the current security mission to a peacekeeping force despite opposition from Russia and China.
UN diplomats offer broad support for peacekeeping mission in Haiti
The U.N. is considering transitioning a multinational security mission into a peacekeeping mission despite opposition from China and Russia.
An inside look at how gang warfare in Haiti has devastated daily life
Despite a UN-approved security mission that deployed in June to try and restore some order, large swaths of the country remain under gang control and violence is endemic. Special Correspondent Marcia Biggs and videographer Eric O'Connor traveled there for a look at the depth of the crisis.
More than 100 suspected gang members have been killed as vigilantism grows in Haiti
At least 108 suspected gang members have been killed in Haiti over three days, a Port-au-Prince human rights group has ...
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Northern Haiti airports reopened to US flights
U.S. flights to six airports in northern Haiti can resume this week, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...
Haiti’s unelected prime minister ousted amid surging gang and state violence, increasing social misery
Haiti’s interim prime minister was ousted last week by the Transitional Council—the government “oversight mechanism” that the ...
Haiti blasts Macron's criticism of transition council as 'unfriendly and inappropriate'
Haiti's foreign minister met with the French ambassador to the nation on Thursday over what the ministry branded as ...
‘Haiti on Fire’: Rolling Stone Dives Into the Country’s Deadly Gang War
Haiti on Fire, a 27-minute film from Blackbeard Films, XTR, and Rolling Stone Films, attempts to cut through the hype ...
Increasing violence in Haiti forces Doctors Without Borders to stop operations
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it is stopping operations across the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and its wider ...
Residents in Haiti's capital stand with police in battle to repel latest gang attack
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Gangs launched a new attack on Haiti’s capital early Tuesday, targeting an upscale community in Port ...
UN to resume Haiti aid flights after planes hit by gunfire
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service will restart flights within Haiti on Wednesday after around a week's hiatus and ...
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Haiti - FLASH : Major police operation in Bas Delmas,«Barbecue» manages to escape
On Thursday, November 21, 2024, a large deployment of police officers involving special units including the PNH Intervention Group (GIPNH), SWAT and the Intervention and Maintenance Corps ...