PORT-AU-PRINCE — The multinational security support mission in Haiti suffered its first casualty Sunday, after a Kenyan police officer died from injuries he sustained during an anti-gang operation north of the capital, the mission said…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A fourth contingent of Kenyan police arrived Thursday in Haiti to help repel violent gangs as officials brushed off concerns over a halt in some U.S. funding to the U.N.-backed mission. The 200 police officers…
NAIROBI (AP) — 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. According to the minister, Kipchumba Murkomen,…
The main international airport remains off-limits to U.S. jetliners. Armed gangs continue to gain ground despite the presence of a police-led international force. And the political transition that the United States and others helped Haitians…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — It was supposed to be a rare victory after a wave of setbacks in Haiti’s war against gangs. The armored police vehicles, manned by Haitian and Kenyan police, rolled into the small farming…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haiti’s main international airport reopened on Wednesday to commercial flights, one month after gangs opened fire on planes. It was the second closing this year because of gang violence. Soldiers and police, bolstered by Kenyan…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti’s capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in his community to avenge his son’s death, according to the government and…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — An armored vehicle carrying Kenyan police rumbles through Haiti’s capital with a shattered window that a high-caliber bullet failed to penetrate, a permanent sign of violence the officers face almost daily in Port-au-Prince. The…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s top police official has denied reports that officers serving in the United Nations-backed multinational peacekeeping mission in Haiti have gone unpaid for three months. The police inspector general, Douglas Kanja,…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Russia and China on Wednesday opposed a U.S.-led campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti helping police to tackle escalating gang violence into a U.N. peacekeeping mission. The two allies called a…