Kenya says it is confident the deployment of hundreds of its police to Haiti by January will end gang warfare there. Last year Haiti’s government appealed for help because of the spiralling gang violence. Gangs have largely overpowered the police and now control more than three-quarters of the capital. Initially …
Read More »Dozen suspected gang members stoned and burned alive in Haiti
More than a dozen suspected gang members were stoned and burned alive on Monday by residents of a neighborhood in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, according to police and witnesses. This new outburst of deadly violence occurred when the police had just arrested these armed men, in a context of high …
Read More »$100 million in emergency aid for Haiti
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved emergency aid of $105 million for Haiti, which is plunged into a humanitarian crisis aggravated by inflation. The funds should enable the Caribbean country to “support those most affected by rising food prices through food distributions and payments to the most vulnerable …
Read More »Haiti: suspected cholera cases continue to rise
The number of cholera contaminations continues to increase in Haiti, according to a new bulletin from the Ministry of Public Health obtained on Tuesday. The new figures fuel fears of a new disaster in this country already plunged into a humanitarian and security crisis. As of Monday, 606 suspected and …
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