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The Bishop of Nike Diocese (Anglican Communion), Enugu State, Rt. Revd. (Dr.) Christian Onyeka Onyia, has said that Nigerians are living in a hopeless situation following lip service

In Nairobi, I have been robbed, at gun-point, and not once. I have been drugged, not once. I have been pick-pocketed, I have been conned.

As we heard from matt rivers, this particular case is being very closely followed by the rest of the world. what we are talking about here, isa, is a blight on the day -- everyday life of ordinary haitians just trying to go about their business. there has been a 300% surge in kidnappings in port-au-prince since july. you will remember that that was the month when the countrys president was assassinated in his bed and as several haitians told me the last several weeks when we were covering this i...

Are about cutting costs, despite the company setting crime is the reason was there trying to cut costs of the $900 in free merchandise people steal from them but i digress, walgreens the shutdown 17 stores in the last 5 years but on average it pays 50 times more insecurity to protect its bay area locations than anywhere else in the country. todd: carley: firemen portland protesters causing 500,$000 with damage in the city, local police stood by, due to a new lot in the state they say prohibits l...

Department says that they have all efforts right now, working with the canadian authorities to get these 17 people released and released safely and quickly, jose. >> so yamiche, what has been the white house response so far? >> well, the white house press secretary has said that the president, president biden, was briefed on this situation. they are following it very, very closely. the white house doesnt want to give too many more details, but we know that the official stance of the u.s. governm...

To these demands? >> reporter: the u.s. officials are on the ground in what is a chaotic nation to begin with. they may actually have some contact with the pseudogovernment in haiti but this is a very chaotic situation because of the insecurity and lack of structure of a government in that country. so when you add that up, you realize that the u.s. efforts on the ground with the fbi agents as well as the state department in many ways is going to be complicated because the u.s. does not directly ...

Especially after this years earthquake and the presidents, of course, assassination. paint us a picture of what life is like right now on the ground in haiti and how things can actually change if in fact they can. >> i can tell you that since june, you have at least 19,000 haitians who have been forcefully displaced from their homes in the southern edge of port-au-prince. sam mentioned the earthquake. the reality is today you have large numbers, hundreds and thousands of people who were victimiz...

That, and this last earthquake on top of the assassination has left them completely without political leadership, without law of any kind, and its in that chaos that gangs have proliferated and kidnappings for ransom. >> thats right, andrea. the situation in haiti has deteriorated over the last decade, but really over the last few years with gang members now beginning to control large swaths of the country, something like 60% of the country. haiti always had issues of poverty dating back decades...

Of port-au-prince making their displeasure known. the resigning u.s. envoy had mentioned in his letter when the biden administration was returning that he was standing down on the grounds of the american policy but also on the fact that there had been too much support for political classes working with gangs and that gives you an idea of the level of insecurity in a country that has only grown since the assassination of the president back in july, rosemary. >> melissa bell bringing us you up to ...

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