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The airlines operating between South Florida and Haiti have not said what they will do beyond Monday. “Right now, we are monitoring to see what’s best,” said Harper, the American spokeswoman.
The Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti is an international police and military force approved by the United Nations Security Council on 2 October 2023 to assist the government of Haiti in restoring law and order amid worsening civil strife and gang violence since 2018.
The recent earthquake in Haiti has revived anger over aid response to the country’s 2010 disaster. Here's how Haitian residents are leading recovery efforts
From 2017 to 2021, with Haiti's political leadership deadlocked, public administration virtually shut down due to a lack of funding, and the judicial system in shambles, gangs seized political power through co-operative politicians, and economic control through financing by the business elite, protection rackets, kidnappings and murders.
Powerful gangs, armed with weapons largely trafficked from the United States, have united in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince under a common alliance. They control 85% of the city, according to the U.N.
Since January 10, 2023, both houses of parliament in Haiti have been vacant. [2] The party leader, Jean-Charles Moïse, resigned as Senator in protest of an alleged bribe of $2.5 million offered to him by allies of President Michel Martelly and in order to run for president in the 2015 presidential election .
Armed groups have seized on the power void, exchanging gunfire with police at Haiti’s main airport on Monday and instigating a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons.
Kenyan president William Ruto announces an agreement with Haiti to deploy 1,000 police officers in a mission approved by the United Nations to combat gang violence in the Caribbean nation. [1] The G9 gang launches an offensive within Port-au-Prince, with its leader Jimmy Chérizier announcing the aim of capturing the Haitian cabinet and police ...