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Haiti declared a state of emergency, and the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince issued an alert calling on U.S. citizens to leave immediately on commercial or private aircraft, even with the airport ...
“The bottom line is that the United States simply cannot tolerate anarchy on its doorstep.” For years, Haiti’s armed forces have been trying to enter the battle against gangs but had to ...
On 2 and 3 March, armed gangs stormed the two largest prisons in Haiti, one in Croix des Bouquets, the other in Port-au-Prince. [12] More than 4,700 inmates escaped. [10] Police were reported to be undermanned and outgunned by the gangs, with only 9,000 operating in Haiti at the time of the fighting. [13]
25 June – Kenyan police units arrive in Haiti for a United Nations-backed security mission to restore order. [21] 29 June – The Biden administration expands its Temporary Protected Status program to 309,000 Haitian refugees in the United States until February 2026, offering the refugees deportation relief and work permits. [22]
Flights at Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti’s capital have been disrupted for the second straight day by heavy gunfire nearby, as the Caribbean nation grapples with surging gang violence and ...
After the airport in Cap-Haïtien reopened, the US resumed deportations to Haiti on 18 April after a three-month hiatus. [ 220 ] Immediately after the publication of the decree creating the Transitional Council on 12 April, President Biden authorized $60 million in aid to the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti using the ...
The United States has dropped a push for the U.N. Security Council to ask for a plan to transform a security mission helping fight armed gangs in Haiti into a formal U.N. peacekeeping operation, a ...
On 12 September 2024, two dozen soldiers and police officers from Jamaica arrived in Haiti to join a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya to combat the gangs. [30] Three months into the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission, little progress has been made, with no tangible improvement in Haiti's security situation.