Haiti faces renewed violence as gangs recruit children, UN delays deployment of peacekeepers
Boys are often used as informants, trained to use weapons and ammunition, and deployed in clashes against the police, HRW said. It cited the case of a boy called Michel, an orphan who was recruited six years ago when he was eight years old and living on the streets and was given a loaded Kalashnikov.
Haitian PM Garry Conille travels to UAE, Kenya to seek security reinforcement after gang massacre
Gran Grif is the largest gang in Haiti’s Artibonite department, according to security analysts. The region is home to many of Haiti’s rice fields. The gang’s leader Luckson Elan said the attack was in retaliation for civilians remaining passive while police and vigilante groups killed his soldiers.
Rampaging Haitian gang slaughters 70, displaces 6,000 as impact of delayed UN force deployment is felt
Police are alleged to have taken part in some mass killings. Gang leader Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier, a former police officer, was accused by the UN of planning and taking part in the 2018 killing of 71 civilians in the capital’s port-side neighborhood of La Saline.
As ATMIS mandate in Somalia nears end, its successor AUSSOM is getting ready to take over before UN deadline
Should the AU Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), become a reality with a similar cost, based on the UN Resolution 2719, 75 per cent to 25 per cent burden share, the AU will have to contribute $375 million – 61.5 per cent of the fund’s current capacity.
UN ‘sex mission’ in eastern Congo leaving behind a MONUSCO ‘clan’ of children without fathers
Dalmas Nzingene, a youth leader from Mbau who lost several relatives in ADF attacks, said peacekeepers don’t follow the recommendations given to them by local communities. Nzingene said he participated in regular community meetings with peacekeepers but felt they were more interested in excusing their failures than taking on advice and seeking to improve.
Head of UN mission in Congo Bintou Keita raises red flag over Rwanda-backed rebels’ $300,000 monthly revenue
M23, or the March 23 Movement, is a rebel military group mainly made up of ethnic Tutsis that broke away from the Congolese army just over a decade ago. They staged a large offensive in 2012 and took over the provincial capital of Goma near the border with Rwanda, the same city they are threatening again.
Rwanda’s military and M23 rebels accused of shelling displaced people camps in Congo
Congo alleges that Rwandan forces have been involved in aggression and war crimes in the east and US and UN experts accuse it of giving military backing to M23. Rwanda denies the claim, but in February admitted that it has troops and missile systems in eastern Congo to safeguard its security, pointing to a buildup of Congolese forces near the border.
Haiti’s head of transition council, Edgard Leblanc, grateful for Americans’ solidarity with migrants in Ohio
The majority of the 15,000 Haitian Americans in Springfield are in the US legally. Springfield has faced a wave of bomb threats to schools and other facilities in the wake of the claims.
Kenya will send more police officers to Haiti, president says
Kenya earlier pledged to lead the multinational force with 1,000 police officers.
Haiti PM tells UN General Assembly the island nation is far from winning gang war as deadline looms
A shipping official said this week that ships were being shot at, preventing them from docking and unloading containers, while authorities have reported the kidnapping of two Filipino crew members from a cargo vessel in the port.
