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Haiti wonders what’s next as gang violence surges and UN peacekeeping mission flops
When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to quell gang violence, hopes were high.
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 US, Canada and various factions of the country’s bourgeois elite put together earlier this year to provide a fig leaf of “popular” legitimacy for the latest imperialist-sponsored military intervention in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.
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,
‘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 surrounding Chérizier and offer a sober look at the man behind the myths. The film is available to stream today on rollingstone.com and the Documentary+ app.
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.
Why Haiti’s gangs are gaining ground despite the presence of an international armed force
There is a level of underestimation of the power of the gangs, not only the way they operate, but their capacity to hold the terrain, their capacity to know the terrain, their capacity to fight or not fight,
As international force struggles to stabilize Haiti, calls grow for UN force
A senior U.N. official urged the international community on Wednesday to make good on its commitments to fund and equip a multinational security force in Haiti, which is struggling to help the Haitian National Police subdue armed gangs who are terrorizing the population,
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 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 ...
Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led force in Haiti to a UN peacekeeping mission
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia and China on Wednesday opposed a U.S.-led campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational ...
Haiti’s Many Problems and Very Few Solutions, Explained
A search for a solution to the crisis in Haiti is growing more urgent as gangs gain territory and thousands more flee their ...
FAA says US flights can resume to airports in northern Haiti
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it was allowing U.S. flights to resume to six airports in northern Haiti ...
Doctors Without Borders halts operations in Haiti’s capital, citing police threats
The humanitarian group accused authorities in the lawless Haitian capital of repeatedly stopping its vehicles and threatening ...
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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 ...