Gangs could overrun Haiti capital if aid falls short
The transitional government should prioritize governance over competing personal and political interests. Now is not the time for political infighting.’
More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security mission last year, U.
The number of Haitians who have fled their homes because of gang violence has tripled in the last year to over one million people, the UN said on Tuesday.
Kenya’s interior minister says the east African nation has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a Kenya-led multinational force to curb gang violence.
The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement within Haiti has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people.
The head of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), Leslie Voltaire, held a private audience with Pope Francis last weekend, according to an official statement issued. It said that during the 20-minute audience on Saturday,
Kenyan President William Ruto, speaking at the 4th annual convention of the Global Cathedral Church in Nairobi, announced that President Trump supports Kenya’s mission in Haiti. Puttingand end to the
Throughout that time, Haiti has endured a presidential assassination, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake, and a spiral of gang-fueled violence that has plunged the Caribbean nation into an even greater crisis than did the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed an estimated 200,000 people.
President William Ruto has hailed President Donald Trump's administration for supporting the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti.The agreement for Kenya to spearhead the security mission in the Caribbean nation was finalized last year under President Joe Biden's leadership.
Mungiki, in whatever form it has evolved, remains a disruptor of public order, a specter that haunts Kenya's socio-political landscape. And Njenga, despite his professed conversion to Christianity, continues to be the emblematic figure of its current iterations.
The president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council said the Trump administration’s decisions to freeze aid programs, deport migrants and block refugees will be “catastrophic”