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In late September, the council committee monitoring sanctions on Haiti added two people to the list, which included five gang leaders. One was Elan Luckson, leader of the Gran Grif gang , which killed at least 115 people in the town of Pont-Sondé in the Artibonite region next to the capital in early October in one of the biggest massacres in ...
The panel was put in place by the U.N. in October 2022 after the Security Council unanimously approved sanctions for Haiti, the first authorization since 2017, and the first for a country in the ...
With gangs controlling at least 80% of the Haitian capital, the four gang leaders are behind much of the spiraling violence.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.N. human rights expert said Wednesday that a specialized international force is needed to help fight gang violence in Haiti and that a weapons embargo should be ...
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Trudeau’s offer of help to Haiti comes about a week after the Canadian Air Force deployed a military aircraft over Haitian airspace to collect intelligence for the Haiti National Police.
Up to 20% of medical staff had left Haiti by the beginning of the year. [179] Even before violence escalated shutting down all but one of the capital's hospitals, Haiti had the worst conditions for childbirth in Latin America and the Caribbean, with only "war-torn countries like Sudan and Yemen" having higher mortality rates. [110]
A year ago, the council slapped sanctions on Jimmy Cherizier, alias "Barbecue," a former police officer turned leader of the G9 Alliance and one of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders.