Author: Jacqueline-Charles—Miami-Herald-TNS

Despite President Donald Trump’s aggressive push to end temporary protections for migrants amid his nationwide crackdown on immigration, Haitian nationals are continuing to keep their violence-plagued homeland afloat by sending billions of dollars in remittances, according to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF says Haiti’s economy has contracted for a seventh consecutive year, and inflation…

The United Nations Security Council agreed on Tuesday to transition the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti into a much more lethal and beefed up force, supported by both a newly created U.N. Support Office and the Organization of American States. The newly authorized Gang Suppression Force was unanimously approved for a period of…

The Gang Suppression Force the U.S. is proposing for Haiti would be far larger, more like a military in makeup and more lethal than the current police-led Kenyan mission, the top U.S. diplomat in Port-au-Prince said. “To be clear, the mission is colored overwhelmingly as military due to the urban combat nature of it,” said…

Mere hours from the United States, thousands of people have been condemned to despair, entire neighborhoods have disappeared, hospitals are being vandalized and burned, doctors are fleeing and women and girls are being raped as lives are extinguished “by bullets, fire, fear.” “This is the face of Haiti today, a country at war,” Laurent Saint-Cyr,…

United Nations human-rights and children’s advocates are denouncing a recent Haitian government drone strike that took the lives of several children and a pregnant woman in a gang-controlled Port-au-Prince neighborhood. The head of the U.N.’s child welfare agency, UNICEF, in Haiti and the world organization’s independent human-rights expert said children need to be protected. The…

Kenyan President William Ruto used his brief moments on the world’s stage on Wednesday to revisit his East African nation’s successes and challenges in Haiti, and to call for support on authorizing the next succession mission to the multinational security support force his country fielded in the Caribbean country. Ruto told world leaders gathered at…

Mexico has become the first Latin American country to contribute to a United Nations trust fund supporting the Kenyan-led multinational security mission in Haiti, joining Canada and the United States as the only countries in the Western Hemisphere to make a financial contribution. Mexico announced its contribution to the voluntary fund on Monday as the…