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Nadjla Juste no longer sleeps. If she’s not listening for the repeated gunfire that has now become all too familiar, she’s keeping an ear open for her mother’s heaving breaths. A heart-disease and diabetic patient, Carole Dieujuste also has kidney disease, requiring several dialysis treatments a week. Her last treatment was more than a month ago.

The number of Haitians killed by criminal gangs in the first three months of this year have skyrocketed, and armed gang violence remains the main driver of human-rights abuses in

New report says number of victims of gang violence has surged, calls for rapid deployment of UN-backed security mission.

The number of Haitians killed by criminal gangs in the first three months of this year has skyrocketed and armed gang violence remains the main driver of human-rights abuses in the volatile Caribbean country, a new United Nations human rights report said Thursday.

The report calls for tighter national and international controls to stem trafficking of weapons and ammunition to Haiti.

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)— The situation in chaos-wracked Haiti is "cataclysmic", with more than 1,500 people killed by gang violence so far this year and more weapons pouring into the country, the UN said Thursday. In a fresh report, the United Nations rights office detailed how "corruption, impunity and poor governance, compounded by increasing levels of gang violence (had) eroded the rule of law and brought state institutions... close to collapse". Th...

The number of Haitians killed by criminal gangs in the first three months of this year have skyrocketed and armed gang violence remains the main driver of human-rights abuses in

Kenya has decided to suspend plans for sending police to violence-wracked Haiti under a UN-backed multinational mission, a top government official announced on Tuesday.

Resignation of Haiti prime minister derails deployment of Kenyan police officers.

The move came after Haitis Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he had agreed to step aside as armed gangs have taken over much of the Caribbean nation.