The United Nations Security Council on Monday extended the mandate of its political mission in Haiti, agreeing that the office remains critical in supporting progress on the security and political ...

The Security Council previously extended the U.N.-backed mission in Haiti led by Kenyan police to October of this year even as the U.S. and other countries warn it is lacking personnel and funding.

Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across the impoverished Caribbean nation, senior U.N. officials warned ...

What Can Be Done? The current situation in Haiti should be seen as a political-criminal crisis in which the use of large-scale violence serves to obtain or maintain an advantageous position within the ...

In turn, Guterres said BINUH, the latest U.N. political mission in Haiti, could focus on priorities including designing programs to help children and women forced to join gangs defect from them ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — More than 260 people were killed during recent gang attacks on two communities in Haiti’s capital, according to a report on Monday by the U.N. political mission in ...