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A UN-backed force is finally being sent to try and restore calm to Haiti, but experts fear it may have no more success than previous foreign interventions in an impoverished nation hit by crisis after crisis. Haitian officials have pleaded for a year for help in battling armed gangs ravaging the Caribbean nation -- just one of the challenges facing the poorest country in...
Once again, the international community will intervene in Haiti, this time to stabilize the security situation in the capital of Port-au-Prince, where gangs have terrorized civilians for the past two years. The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution Monday authorizing a multinational security mission — led not by UN peacekeepers but by Kenya’s national police force — to tackle gang-related violence. Following the assassination of...
Members of the UN Security Council this week debated the mandate of an international security mission, requested by Haitian authorities, to support its underfunded and understaffed police force. The Caribbean country has about 10,000 police officers for more than 11 million people. Kenya has pledged to send...
The United Nations Security Council has approved the deployment of a multinational military force to combat ongoing gang violence in Haiti. NBC’s Valerie Castro explains which countries will be participating and if the U.S. will offer...
Antonio Saint Louis lives in constant fear. A housekeeper in Haiti’s capital, he says bandits killed a friend’s brother weeks ago as they laid unrelenting siege to the sprawling Carrefour-Feuilles slum. Saint Louis, 34, fears an invasion of his own community is inevitable. He has little faith that...
Kenya has proposed leading a multinational security mission in Haiti. Keith Mines, director of the Latin America Program at the U.S. Institute of Peace joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the ongoing crisis in Haiti...
A search continues for an American nurse and her daughter after they were reportedly abducted in Haiti. According to officials, the two were kidnapped from a local non profit organization, El Roi. NBC News' Kristen Dahlgren has more...
Haiti has actively participated in international organizations by being a founding member of the Editorial Board of the Declaration of Human Rights and also of the United Nations. Inspired by the liberal values of the French Revolution (1789), it was the first country to abolish slavery in the...
Months after Haiti's prime minister and the UN pleaded for intervention in the violence-ravaged nation, world powers are searching for new ideas with no country eager to lead a force. In the latest effort, a senior US envoy sought forward movement on Haiti on a visit to Brazil, which spearheaded a previous...
Haiti has for decades been in a perfect storm of internal challenges – earthquakes, floods, poor governance and now a capital nearly overrun by gangs. The international response has often brought its own storms – including a cholera epidemic and sexual predation by UN peacekeepers. Haitians are becoming increasingly...