Haiti residents cautiously hopeful as first Kenyan police deploy
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Residents in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince expressed cautious hope after a first contingent of Kenyan police officers arrived in the Caribbean country, as part of a long-delayed mission to help police fight armed gangs. A few hundred Kenyan police officers landed in Haiti this week to lead a United Nations-ratified mission set […]
Haiti PM vows to retake country as first Kenyan police arrive
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters The first contingent of Kenyan police arrived in the Haitian capital on Tuesday to launch a long-awaited peacekeeping mission in the Caribbean country that has been ravaged by gang violence, even as deadly protests back home prompted doubts. “At last the multinational force is here to support our national police,” Haitian Prime […]
Haiti PM condemns killing of police officers in gang ambush
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Haiti’s new Prime Minister on Monday condemned the gang killings of three police officers on a patrol in a part of the capital controlled by gang leader Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier. A group of armed men working under Cherizier ambushed a patrol from the police’s anti-gang unit in the Delmas 18 neighbourhood on […]
Haiti transition council taps former PM Conille to again lead country
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Haiti’s transition council on Tuesday tapped former Prime Minister Garry Conille, who briefly led the country over a decade ago, to return to the role as the Caribbean nation works to restore stability and take back control from violent gangs. The transition council voted six-to-one to install Conille as interim prime minister, […]
Haitian children are vulnerable in capital’s violence, UNICEF says
Reuters More than one million Haitian children are under constant threat of violence in the area of the capital Port-au-Prince because of chronic lawlessness, the regional director of children’s agency UNICEF said on Friday. A demonstrator moves a tyre to a burning barricade during a protest for the recent killings of police officers by armed […]