Haiti
5 Mar
The White House said it was "monitoring Haiti's rapidly deteriorating security situation with great concern." Gang leader Jimmy Cherizier has pledged to oust Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
29 Feb
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said on Monday that Benin had offered 2,000 troops for a Kenya-led mission to tackle gang violence in Haiti.
14 Feb
Former Haitian prime minister Claude Joseph, who is now head of the opposition party "Les Engagés pour le Développement". He denounced interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry's decision to remain in power beyond February 7, the date on which he had pledged to step down. Joseph said Henry's argument that the security situation prevents elections from being held is simply a pretext to stay in power.
16 Dec
Gunmen pulled out a patient from an MSF ambulance and shot him dead in the capital, Port-au-Prince. MSF announced the indefinite closure of an emergency clinic as the group conducts a security analysis.
19 Nov
Kenyan lawmakers try to side step court orders delaying plans for a police deployment to Haiti. More than 100 people, including 16 children, have died and over 700,000 forced out of their homes because of flash flooding in the Horn of Africa.
17 Nov
As Argentina gets ready to vote for a new president, over 40 percent of its population live under the poverty line as their budgets are squeezed by triple digit inflation. The two candidates running for president – far-right libertarian outsider Javier Milei and ruling Peronist economy minister Sergio Massa – are offering radically different solutions.
8 Nov
Why is Kenya leading the mission? Kenya has a history of sending peacekeepers to volatile countries and offered to send 1,000 personnel to Haiti in July. Nairobi says it wants to take part in the “rebuilding” of the country, which has been run by unelected officials for years.
11 Oct 2023
Even though a Kenyan court has temporarily halted Kenya's plans to send police to Haiti, the question still remains: why did Kenya volunteer to lead the UN-backed force in the first place?
29 Aug 2023
Protesters led by a pastor marched through a gang-controlled area near the capital. Rights groups reporting on the incident blamed the pastor for leading protesters into such a dangerous situation.
20 May 2023
In Haiti, gang violence is still rocking the capital Port-au-Prince. We look at two very different initiatives to try to keep it in check: a basketball association working to keep kids off the streets and on the court, and a vigilante movement where civilians are taking justice into their own hands.
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