The United Nations Security Council agreed on Tuesday to transition the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti into a much more lethal and beefed up force, supported by both a newly ...

The Council adopted additional restrictive measures against three individuals and one entity engaging in gang violence, who are responsible for actions that threaten peace, stability and security in ...

As Haiti’s capital comes under intense gang attacks, angry Haitians in Canape Vert armed themselves with machetes and took to the streets on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 to protest the assaults and lack ...

A woman carries a child during a fight between police and gang members in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti’s most powerful gang coalition and another criminal armed group operating in the country ...

As a deadline approaches to renew the multinational force battling gangs in Haiti, a United States-led push to expand the effort has received backing from some Caribbean and Latin American nations.

Kenya has sent 230 specialized police officers to Haiti to boost the UN-authorized Gang Suppression Force (GSF) that is tasked to suppress armed gangs in the country. The troops led by Kenya’s Deputy ...

Haiti’s new Gang Suppression Force appears poised to meet its ambitious target of 5,500 troops, after a number of nations, including Chad and Bangladesh, offered to deploy soldiers, engineers and ...

UNITED NATIONS/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The United States and Panama launched a push on Thursday for the U.N. Security Council to establish a force to suppress powerful armed gangs in Haiti, which a top ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council began talks on Friday on a draft resolution for Haiti to bolster and expand a struggling international force fighting armed gangs, but ...

The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution to transform a UN-backed security mission in gang-dominated Haiti into a larger, full-fledged force with military troops. The new ...

Former Haitian President Michel Martelly has been blacklisted by the European Union alongside two once powerful lawmakers and ...