The US is drafting a resolution to present to the United Nations Security Council to "properly resource" Haiti's fight to reduce gang territorial cont...
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...
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...
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...
To help stabilise the situation, Kenya is leading a multinational support mission to assist the Haitian National Police. The team includes officers fr...
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...
Officially, the payment was meant to compensate French plantation owners for “lost property” following independence, but the amount far exceeded actua...
Children now comprise up to half of all armed group members, with recruitment driven by widespread poverty, lack of education and collapse of essentia...
During a UN Security Council session on Wednesday, the United States and Canada emphasised that the international community needed to follow through o...
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...
Noor holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Penology from the International Academy Bramshill of the National Police Improvement Agency in the UK...
The Haitian National Police, or PNH, has been at the forefront of a battle against powerful armed gangs that have taken over most of the capital, Port...
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...
Garry Conille spoke days after being named for the office, more than a month after a nine-member transition council was sworn in, and nearly three mon...
A Kenyan delegation, comprising officials including the force commander of the enforcement mission, landed in Haiti aboard a Sunrise Airways flight on...
The High Court had previously blocked the deployment in January, citing the lack of a reciprocal agreement between Kenya and Haiti.
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