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UK sanctions 25 people-smuggling kingpins, enablers in global crackdown
Mary Wambui  |  Jul 23, 2025

The sanctions aim to disrupt the flow of money and materials that sustain these criminal networks, freezing property, bank accounts and other assets u...

Nearly 5,000 killed in Haiti gang violence between October and June 2025 - UN
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 12, 2025

To help stabilise the situation, Kenya is leading a multinational support mission to assist the Haitian National Police. The team includes officers fr...

Haitian capital ‘paralysed and isolated’ by gang violence, Security Council hears
UN News  |  Jul 03, 2025

Since January, the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), recorded over 4,000 individuals deliberately killed – a 24 per cent increase compared to the...

Haiti gangs recruiting more child soldiers, human rights report says
Reuters  |  Oct 09, 2024

Near-famine conditions push boys to pick up guns while girls are sexually abused and forced into domestic work in the Carribean nation.

Haiti PM travels to US as Kenyan police patrol capital
Reuters  |  Jun 29, 2024

The U.S. is the principal financial backer of a Kenya-led international security force the United Nations has ratified be sent to Haiti to help its po...

Haiti PM condemns killing of police officers in gang ambush
Reuters  |  Jun 11, 2024

A group of armed men working under gang leader Jimmy "Barbeque" Cherizier ambushed a patrol from the police's anti-gang unit in the Delmas 18 neighbou...

Act of faith: Kenya enlists evangelical pastors to guide Haiti mission
Reuters  |  Jun 05, 2024

For all their focus on the practical aspects of the deployment, Musasilwa and another pastor, Julius Suubi, said they were convinced Haiti's problems...

Haiti crisis: Gang violence drives thousands from capital, hunger sets in
AFP  |  Mar 23, 2024

Harrowing scenes played out as the tiny, Caribbean country continued to wait for the establishment of a promised transitional government meant to rest...

Haiti gang leader warns of genocide unless PM Ariel Henry resigns
AFP  |  Mar 06, 2024

Gang leader Jimmy Cherizier, known as "Barbecue", warned of a civil war and genocide unless Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigns.

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