The UN-backed Kenyan-led mission faces significant challenges as armed gangs escalate violence across the island nation.

At least 22 people were massacred in Guayaquil. The government promises pardons for the police and military and claims that the surge in violence is due to the upcoming presidential elections.

Paradoxically, the government calls its security plan a success, while requesting the entry of foreign troops to reduce internal violence.

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.

Eight months since Ecuador’s president declared an internal armed conflict and began to heavily militarize the country, what has this strategy been able to achieve?

International Relations professor Fernando Brancoli says neighboring countries are already preparing to receive Ecuadorians

Some clues to unravel how in a few years Ecuador went from being a peaceful country to becoming a territory governed by organized crime.

Movements propose transitional government and cooperation with the Global South to rebuild the country

More than 20 people were ruthlessly massacred in Haiti after an armed criminal gang opened fire against protesters during a march in Canaan, a makeshift neighborhood on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince

A Kenyan assessment mission recently went to Haiti to examine the possibility of deploying a 1000-strong multinational police force, purportedly to improve security and stem gang violence. Haitian people’s movements and rights organizations rejected and condemned the proposal, saying it will escalate the issues it seeks to solve