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This comes after a court in Nairobi stopped Kenya from deploying police to Haiti

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)— The United States on Saturday appealed for urgent support for a UN-backed law-and-order mission to Haiti, which has been thrown into doubt after a Kenyan court ruled against Nairobi's plan to send its police to the gang-plagued nation. "The United States' commitment to the Haitian people remains unwavering," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement. "We reaffirm our support of ongoing internati...

Saturday January 27, 2024, Matthew Miller, Spokesperson for the Department of State, regarding the deployment of a Multinational Security Support Mission (MMSS) in Haiti declared...

Kenya’s High Court ruled Friday that the East African nation cannot deploy 1,000 police officers to help Haiti fight criminal gangs, sending a devastating blow to supporters of an armed intervention into the country to help its national police.

More than 8,400 people were victims of gang violence in Haiti last year, including killings, injuries and kidnappings – a 122 per cent increase over 2022, the UN Special Representative for the country told the UN Security Council on Thursday.

Haitians urgently need a rights-based international response amid a surge in killings and kidnappings, rampant sexual violence, and a severe food crisis, Tirana Hassan, executive director at Human Rights Watch, said today in remarks delivered at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Haiti.

“Arresting gang members and leaders is one thing; disarming them is something else and judging them, another.”

As Haiti’s Catholic Church tries to negotiate the freedom of six kidnapped nuns and two of their companions from an armed gang, Pope Francis has called for the release of

This is a critical week for Haiti as both the U.N. Security Council and a court in Kenya look at the ongoing gang-related violence.

This is a critical week for Haiti as both the U.N. Security Council and a court in Kenya look at the ongoing gang-related violence.