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May 30, 2024

Small Steps

United Nations development director Garry Conille was appointed as Haiti’s new prime minister Tuesday, amid criticism of the lack of transparency in the process used to select him to lead the troubled country, Al Jazeera reported. The nine-member transition council was formed following former Prime Minister...

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May 23, 2024

Mission Impossible

The first of Kenya’s special forces police arrived in Haiti’s capital this week, as part of a United Nations-backed international force with the mission to stabilize the security situation in the Caribbean nation after years of political crisis, violence and a partial takeover of the...

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April 10, 2024

Black and Blue

Leaders in Haiti have reached a deal for a transitional government to end the gang-fuelled chaos that has battered the nation, pending the approval of the outgoing administration, Agence France Presse reported. The deal, agreed to over the weekend, establishes a nine-member council made up of...

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March 13, 2024

Bowing Out

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned, following national and international pressure to step down as armed gangs have tightened their grip in the Caribbean country’s capital Port-au-Prince and are threatening civil war, the Washington Post reported. The embattled prime minister announced late Monday that he would...

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March 04, 2024

Gangland

Haiti’s government called a 72-hour curfew Sunday evening, as heavy fighting between criminal gangs and police took over the capital Port-au-Prince over the weekend which also saw thousands of prisoners being broken out of jail, Reuters reported. Up to 4,000 prisoners, including high-profile criminals, may have...

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February 22, 2024

Et Tu?

A judge in Haiti probing the killing of President Jovenel Moïse indicted a group of individuals that includes his widow, the former prime minister, and a police chief for involvement in the murder – the latest indictment related to the killing that set off the...

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November 17, 2023

Green Light

Kenya’s parliament approved Thursday the deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti, as part of a multinational mission aimed at helping the Caribbean country get a grip on its dire security situation, the Associated Press reported. The approval came months after Kenya announced it would lead...

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October 25, 2023

Failing a State

Kenyan lawmakers are considering a plan to deploy 1,000 police to Haiti. This unique effort – an African democracy sending peacekeeping forces to aid a former French colony where ethnic Africans staged a groundbreaking slave revolt more than two centuries ago – comes as gangs have...

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October 04, 2023

S.O.S.

The United Nations Security Council approved the deployment of an armed multinational force to Haiti, as the battered Caribbean country grapples with out-of-control violence from criminal gangs and a years-long political crisis, CNN reported. Thirteen members of the Security Council voted in favor of a resolution,...

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August 09, 2023

The Spirals of Despair

Thousands of Haitians took to the streets of the capital this week to demand protection against violent gangs terrorizing their neighborhoods, with the Caribbean country seeing a surge in murders and kidnappings in recent years, the Associated Press reported. Protesters marched to the prime minister’s official...

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May 30, 2023

The Meanest of Streets

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently called for the richest countries in the world to help Haiti, the violence-wracked, impoverished, politically unstable nation in the Caribbean. “In Haiti, we need to act quickly to alleviate the suffering of a population torn apart by tragedy,”...

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March 09, 2023

S.O.S.

The United Nations has appointed Ecuadoran diplomat Maria Isabel Salvador to help Haiti rebuild after a devastating earthquake in 2010, the dissolution of parliament in 2020, the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, and the subsequent explosion in crime, gang violence and the breakdown...

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February 09, 2023

The Long Road Back

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry formally installed a transition council this week that is to help usher the crisis-plagued Caribbean country toward long-overdue elections, Reuters reported. Henry said the creation of the High Transition Council marks the “beginning of the end of dysfunction in our democratic...

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January 30, 2023

The Hunted

Haitian police attacked the official residence of Prime Minister Ariel Henry over the weekend to protest against the recent killings of officers by the armed gangs ransacking the Caribbean country, as it continues to reel from political and economic crises, the Telegraph reported. On Thursday, officers...

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January 13, 2023

The Pillars Fall

Haiti’s last remaining lawmakers saw their terms expire this week, a development that is deepening the Caribbean nation’s political crisis and solidifying what observers call a de facto dictatorship in a country wracked by gang violence, the Associated Press reported. Ten senators, who had been symbolically...

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