Hope and fear hang in the air as newly arrived Kenyan police force prepares to face Haitian gangs
Expectations are high: Haitians are scared and tired of gangs that have pillaged their way through the capital of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas, killing, raping and kidnapping thousands of people in recent years and leaving hundreds of thousands of others homeless and unemployed, which in turn has deepened poverty.
Arrival of 400 Kenyan police officers in Haiti offers PM Conille respite as he vows to retake country from criminals
The gang wars have now displaced over half a million people and nearly five million are facing severe food insecurity. Armed groups, which now control most of the capital, have formed a broad alliance while carrying out widespread killings, ransom kidnappings and sexual violence.
Kenyan police off to Haiti on UN public order restoration mission as President Ruto faces withering criticism
A court case seeking to block the deployment is pending, but an initial ruling had called the deployment unconstitutional, citing the lack of a reciprocal agreement between Kenya and Haiti.
Sudan leads with 9.1 million as world records highest number of displaced people in years
Mr Robert Piper said that the current global figure of 76 million represented those who have “lost their homes, livelihoods, their communities and in some cases, their legal identities, because of wars, disasters like earthquakes and floods and other weather-related disasters.”
New UN audit report lays bare deep-seated rot in employment, staff holding directorships in companies the world body hires
The most common types of conflicts of interest within the UN, the audit said, are outside employment or activities, followed by family relationships within the UN. Examples of “outside activities” include holding board of directors or management positions, or interests in companies that deal with the UN.
Somalia wants withdrawal of African peacekeepers delayed further as fears Islamist resurgence rise
The European Union and United States, the top funders of the AU force in Somalia, have sought to reduce the peacekeeping operation due to concerns about long-term financing and sustainability, four diplomatic sources and a senior Ugandan official said.
Conflict-related sexual violence is the only crime for which society is more apt to blame victims than perpetrators
It’s very hard to talk about the actual prevalence of conflict-related sexual violence. Just to give you one example, last year in my report to the Secretary-General, I highlighted less than 1,000 cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for 2022. When I saw the data from UNICEF talking about 32,000 cases and the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, with 38,000 cases for the same year, I really panicked. So, I had to go to the DRC to update my data and to explain the context, the security and access challenges faced in documenting these cases.
Haiti police chiefs in Nairobi for meetings with Kenyan commanders prior to deployment of UN mission to fight gangs
A UN-approved stabilisation mission to Haiti that started in June 2004 was marred by a sexual abuse scandal and the introduction of cholera, which killed nearly 10,000 people. The mission ended in October 2017.
Gang-ravaged Haiti replaces police boss with former chief pending arrival of Kenyan force
A recent survey by local rights group RNDDH found that 20 police officers have been killed so far this year and more than 320 since 2015. Police officers also reported late pay, insufficient training, workplace harassment, dismissal threats, knife and gunshot injuries and equipment shortages – including of weapons, ammunition, shields and vehicles.
WFP to refugees in Kenya: We provide free food, free water, free health and education, so you should accept cut food rations
The cuts to both food and vouchers were imposed with little warning, people in Dadaab – Kenya’s largest refugee settlement – complained. They also came on the heels of heavy flooding in April, which displaced 20,000 people and drove up prices in local markets, deepening everyone’s despair.
