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Haiti’s beleaguered police, army get elite French training as gang crisis deepens
The report presented by Secretary-General António Guterres another concern stood out — one that some experts fear is being overlooked in the effort to fight the country’s powerful gangs with a larger and more lethal international force: the condition of Haiti’s national police.
“The abrupt shift in the security landscape in recent years in Haiti has placed unprecedented strain on the police force,” the report said, noting that the agency has been forced to move from managing civil unrest to conducting complex anti-gang operations.
Congress passes new law targeting Haitian gangs, awaits Trump’s signature
The U.S. government will be required to investigate and report on members of Haiti’s political and economic elite who have colluded with violent gangs, and to impose sanctions on those found to have done so, under legislation Congress has approved.
Report: Killing Haiti gang members is short-term solution; groups must be dismantled
As the United States prepares to bolster Haiti’s fight against increasingly brutal armed gangs, a new report is urging officials and mission planners to heed the lessons of the recent Kenya-led security mission and warns that suppressing gangs cannot be reduced solely to killing their members.
Soup, cassava, now konpa: Haitian music makes UNESCO ‘cultural heritage’ list
on Wednesday, both the sound known as konpa or konpa direk — and the country where the rhythm was born 70 years ago — got some good news: The music was inscribed in UNESCO’s coveted list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Haiti secures major troop offers for new anti-gang fighting force
Haiti’s new Gang Suppression Force appears poised to meet its ambitious target of 5,500 troops, after a number of nations, including Chad and Bangladesh, offered to deploy soldiers, engineers and police offices to help the country’s beleaguered security forces combat armed gangs.