PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A U.N. human rights expert warned on Friday that gang violence is spreading across Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission targeting criminals in the troubled
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Haiti creates a provisional electoral council to prepare for the first elections since 2016
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haiti’s government on Wednesday created a provisional electoral council long sought by the international community to prepare the troubled Caribbean country for its first
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Jamaica to deploy a limited number of soldiers and police to help fight gangs in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced Tuesday that his country would send two dozen soldiers and police officers to Haiti this week
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Proposed resolution asks UN to plan for UN peacekeepers to replace Kenya-led police mission in Haiti
NEW YORK (AP) — The United States and Ecuador circulated a draft resolution on Friday asking the United Nations to begin planning for a U.N.
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UN renews appeal for help for Haiti as more people go hungry and homeless
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Half of the population in Haiti is not getting enough to eat and barely a quarter of the hospitals are operating at normal
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Security officers cover Haiti’s prime minister with gunfire as he leaves hospital
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Security officers had to fire shots Monday to cover Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille’s exit from a hospital in Port-au-Prince on Monday,
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UN fund warns of $23 million deficit in Haiti’s education system as it announces grant
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — No chairs. Missing blackboards. A lack of bathrooms. Schools in Haiti’s capital and beyond are crumbling as gang violence deepens poverty and
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‘You have a job to do’: U.S. envoy pushes elections in visit with Haiti’s leaders
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The United States’ top envoy to the United Nations visited a crisis-wrecked Haiti this week during which she announced tens of millions of
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US ambassador announces $60 million in aid and new resources for police during visit to Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations announced $60 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Haiti during a trip Monday to the troubled Caribbean
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US ambassador visits Haiti to meet new leaders and Kenyan police helping to curb gang violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations traveled to Haiti today to meet leaders of the new transitional government and the Kenyan
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