GBV Haiti,Haiti,haiti gang violence Stories
Women and girls face the brunt of this crisis. Gender-based violence (GBV) such as gang rape is rampant, particularly in the capital Port-au-Prince, a...
And if you ask O’Neill what is creating conditions akin to the Wild West, the answer is desperation. With over 1.3 million Haitians displaced and half...
The revelations come amidst revelations by Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen that at least 10 Kenyans have died in police custody (pre-trial detention) i...
Haiti is currently facing a protracted and worsening humanitarian crisis, with gang violence expanding beyond the capital of Port-au-Prince. Civilians...
There are now over 200 GPAS located throughout Haiti, which cultivate high-quality seeds to distribute to other farmers with the goal of increasing fa...
The violence has forced dozens to flee across the Artibonite River, some on foot and others by swimming, to escape gang-controlled areas.
Residents in the Haitian capital confirmed to AFP that heavy exchanges of gunfire broke out between armed gangs and police forces in the vicinity of t...
As many gangs expand their territory, they have committed human rights violations, according to the UN, including extrajudicial killings, child exploi...
Multiple political, security and socioeconomic crises have led to 5.7 million people suffering from a lack of food and have forced 1.3 million people...
Nearly 1.3 million people in the Caribbean country have fled their homes, with an additional 15,000 uprooted last week after armed attacks in the comm...
Thousands have been killed by gang violence that has swept Haiti in recent years. The Trump administration previously classified one of the main armed...
Panana and the US, the co-penholders on Haiti, have, however, proposed that to extend BINUH's mandate by six and a half months, rather than one year.
To help stabilise the situation, Kenya is leading a multinational support mission to assist the Haitian National Police. The team includes officers fr...
Since January, the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), recorded over 4,000 individuals deliberately killed – a 24 per cent increase compared to the...
The UN Support Office is part of the recommendations made by Secretary General Antonio Guterres earlier this year, aimed at keeping the mission runnin...
But rather than charting a path to stability, the CPT remains mired in dysfunction as Haiti’s crisis deepens with no end in sight. Armed gangs now con...
Benedict Kabiru disappeared in Haiti on March 26 this year. However, the family has criticised the State’s silence on whether he is still alive.
Benedict Kabiru’s family say they have been left in distress, with no answers from officials, as fears grow that he may have been captured or killed.
The report released on June 1, 2025 states that few Haitian government officials still operating are cornered in Pétion-Ville, an affluent hillside ne...
The findings come at a time when peacekeeping operations in the world are folding, with the last United Nations mission having been deployed in 2014.
The Haitian government has inked a deal with Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater—a company long associated with shadowy operations and alleged war...
The report highlights that the mission is caught between political realignment in the United States and paralysis in international aid efforts, leavin...
The signed Memorandum of Understanding provides for medical evacuation, repatriation of the wounded and deceased, and access to Dominican territory fo...
Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi is expected in the Dominican Republic capital, Santo Doming,o between May 11 and 13 to hold talks with the co...
According to the family, no official communication has been made regarding Kabiru’s whereabouts since his disappearance on March 26, despite repeated...
The diplomatic post will be manned by former Deputy Inspector General of the Administration Police, Noor Gabow, whose nomination was approved by Kenya...
MSS Mission spokesperson jack Ombaka noted that the mission has not yet met its personnel deployment targets and is still grappling with shortages in...
The United States, the mission's main financier, stated that it could not continue shouldering such a significant burden, while France announced a con...
Officially, the payment was meant to compensate French plantation owners for “lost property” following independence, but the amount far exceeded actua...
"The gangs have powerful automatic weapons that fire many rounds per minute as well as sniper rifles which some gang members have been trained on. Peo...
