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Tropical storm Jeanne skimmed the north coast of Haiti, leaving 3,006 people dead in flooding and mudslides, mostly in the city of Gonaïves. [3] Earlier that year in May, floods killed over 3,000 people on Haiti's southern border with the Dominican Republic. [4] Haiti was again pummeled by tropical storms in late August and early September 2008.
National Police patrol the area near the empty National Penitentiary after a small fire inside the jail. One constant in recent years for Haiti's internal security environment has been its ...
Now that Kenya has taken the lead in possibly leading a foreign intervention into Haiti, the United Nations’ secretary-general, who has been a strong advocate of “a robust” use of force ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -At least five agents of Haiti's BSAP, an armed environmental agency that in recent years has evolved into a paramilitary body, were killed in a shootout with national ...
Environmental issues in Haiti include a historical deforestation problem, overpopulation, a lack of sanitation, natural disasters, and food insecurity. The major reasons for these environmental issues are corruption, human exploitation, and the embezzlement of taxpayers' funds for personal gains.
This ethos is critical in addressing one of Haitii’s most pressing issues: national security. For close to three years, the Haitian people have asked for three main things from the international ...
Haiti's Ministry of Defense is the main body of the armed forces. [263] The former Haitian Armed Forces were demobilized in 1995; however, efforts to reconstitute it are currently underway. [264] The current defense force for Haiti is the Haitian National Police, which has a highly trained SWAT team, and works alongside the Haitian Coast Guard.
But during his address to the Security Council, he also spoke of reforming the Haiti National Police and establishing adequate infrastructure that complies with modern building standards as well ...