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Kenya has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a multinational force to curb gang violence plaguing the Caribbean nation, Kenya's interior minister said on Saturday. “The Kenya ...
Haiti's unelected government requested security assistance last October, and countries are now discussing sending a U.N.-backed Kenya-led force to bolster police.
During 2023 self-defense militias had killed more criminals than the police. [11] In March 2024, Ariel Henry resigned. [9] Haiti has previously been subject to international policing missions. U.S. troops and U.N. civilian police conducted patrols in the mid-1990s when the Haitian police was just being established.
27 September – The United Nations reports during the first six months of this year at least 3,661 have been killed in Haiti, including 100 children, amid the ongoing gang violence. [33] 30 September – The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to extend the Kenyan-led multinational police mission to Haiti until 2 October 2025. [34]
However, with 3,252 murders recorded since January, including 20 police officers killed by armed gangs, Haiti remains in a vicious cycle of killing by armed gangs and so-called vigilante, self ...
Haiti has been undergoing a crisis since 2018, including political assassinations and a gang war since 2023. On 1 March 2024, Haitian prime minister Ariel Henry signed an agreement in Nairobi, Kenya attempting to allow the deployment of 1,000 Kenyan police officers to Haiti. [9]
After Haiti and Kenya signed the security agreement, gangs in Port-au-Prince united and launched an armed insurgency against the government. They killed police officers, burned hospitals and ...
With the outgunned force shrinking by the day— the Haiti National Police lost over 1,600 officers last year, according to the U.N. — there are now less than 9,000 officer in a population of ...