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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 to boost a U.N.-backed mission led…

John McCarthy September 11, 2024

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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. peacekeeping operation to replace the…

John McCarthy September 7, 2024

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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 levels. And between March and…

John McCarthy August 28, 2024

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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, the prime minister’s office said.…

John McCarthy July 30, 2024

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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 disrupts basic government services as…

John McCarthy July 27, 2024

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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 dollars in humanitarian and security…

John McCarthy July 25, 2024

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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 country. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield also…

John McCarthy July 23, 2024

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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 police who are the vanguard…

John McCarthy July 22, 2024

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Haiti’s prime minister orders gangs to drop weapons and promises to take back control of the capital

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille ordered gangs to surrender their weapons during a televised speech late Wednesday in which he acknowledged how dangerous life in Haiti’s capital and beyond…

John McCarthy July 18, 2024

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More Kenyan police arrive in Haiti for UN-backed mission to fight violent gangs

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Another 200 police officers from Kenya arrived Tuesday in Haiti for a U.N.-backed mission led by the East African country to battle violent gangs that have taken over parts of the…

John McCarthy July 17, 2024