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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...

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...