The United States has formally designated the two Haitian criminal groups – the Viv Ansanm coalition and the Gran Grif gang – as terrorist organizations.
Haitian peasant Jean Claude Philippe played a central role in training internationalist brigade members from Brazil and Latin America.
During a meeting at the UN Security Council, the Chinese representative called Trump’s measures “cruel and absurd.”
Social organizations and political leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean demand historical justice for Haiti amid an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
The UN-backed Kenyan-led mission faces significant challenges as armed gangs escalate violence across the island nation.
Kenya’s ongoing intervention in Haiti faces growing doubts amid escalating crisis and humanitarian challenges.
The brutal, religiously motivated massacre has been widely condemned as Haitians intensify calls for a return to democratic order and peace.
At least 70 people were killed (most of them shot in the head) and almost twenty people were injured (including two gang members who were wounded after an armed confrontation with the police). Among the victims are three infants and 10 women.
Kenyan police officers were deployed to Haiti as part of a UN-mandated mission to try to combat gang violence and restore security.
The Kenyan officers arrived to Port-au-Prince to establish the UN-authorized Multinational Security Support Mission to fight against gang violence in Haiti
The government of president William Ruto has suspended the deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police officers as part of a US-backed mission to Haiti. The news followed a day after Haiti’s de facto PM, Ariel Henry, announced his resignation to pave the way for the appointment of a “Transitional Presidential Council” amid rising insecurity in the country.
The resignation of Henry comes amid an upsurge in violence between security forces and paramilitary groups, and was a long standing demand of movements in the country