The head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), Maria Isabel Salvador, says the French-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country is showing signs of progress on the political front despite serious setbacks in terms of security.
Kenyan officers who have been deployed to Haiti sent heartfelt video messages to their families, assuring them they are doing well and asking for prayers.
Corruption and money laundering continue to undermine prospects for stability in Haiti, while enabling trafficking and organized crime.”
Colombia's Petro Visits Southern Haiti
The latest attacks occurred a day after gangs shot up an armored vehicle belonging to the U.S. Embassy in Haiti.
Haiti's capital could become overrun by criminal gangs if the international community does not step up aid to a UN-backed security mission to the Caribbean nation, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned in a report Wednesday.
The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement within Haiti has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people.
The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement in Haiti, largely caused by gang violence, has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people — a record in the Caribbean nation.
For all their charm, the pristine beaches of the Caribbean have always been slightly at odds with the reality of life in the region. This situation is helped by the fact that tourism remains the lifeblood of local economies – and is typically insulated from the high crime rates,
An additional 217 Kenyan police officers landed in Haiti on Saturday to bolster a multinational force seeking to restore order to the violence-ridden Caribbean island.
But the gross-looking, wriggly fish that has become both a delicacy — and a currency — known as zangi in Haitian-Creole, is also fueling a new kind of illicit trafficking in the volatile Caribbean nation, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and
By Sir Ronald Sanders Within hours of his second inauguration as President of the United States on0, Donald Trump issued a sweeping series of Executive Orders (EOs). Several of them will affect the Caribbean,