Haiti’s gang wars having ‘cataclysmic’ impact on access to food staples
About 22,000 people have been displaced amid murders, looting, kidnappings and widespread sexual violence, new UN report says Haiti’s brutal gang wars have spread from...
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Colombian ex-army officer gets life in prison for killing of Haiti president Jovenel Moïse
Retired army officer Germán Alejandro Rivera García, 45, is second of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami A retired Colombian army officer has been...
Top Mexican court to give new life to controversial Trump-era border policy
‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, which forces people seeking asylum to wait in Mexico while US claims are processed, set to be revived The Mexican supreme...
Court blocks Kenya from deploying police officers to Haiti to fight gangs
Order comes after UN approved mission to send Kenya-led police officers to help Haiti combat rampant gang violence A Kenyan court temporarily blocked the government...
UN votes to send Kenyan-led security force to Haiti to combat gangs
Security council approves mission but UN faces concerns over outside force with its own record of abuses Kenya’s offer to send police to Haiti sparks...
Haiti’s most powerful gang boss calls for uprising to overthrow prime minister
Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier issued call to arms as US looks to UN to approve Kenya-led mission to stem country’s growing violence The most severe humanitarian...
Haiti violence: gang guns down churchgoers protesting against criminals
Rights groups say churchgoers were killed and wounded as they marched in order to rid the area of gang members At least seven people were...
‘There’s no police or state’: Haitians helpless as violence and brutality soars
Human Rights Watch says country unable to protect citizens from killing and rape by armed gangs, and floats overseas peacekeepers Human rights abuses in Haiti...
Kenya’s offer to send police to Haiti sparks human rights concerns
Groups say move could worsen country’s security crisis given police force’s poor human rights record An offer from Kenya to dispatch police officers to Haiti...
UN unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month amid ‘catastrophic’ conditions
The World Food Programme’s Haiti response is only 16% funded with more than half of the country’s population regularly hungry The World Food Programme (WFP)...
