Officials say more than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles to contain rampant gang violence. The U.N.

Summary

Haiti saw over 5,600 killings in 2024, a 20% increase from 2023, amid escalating gang violence, according to the UN.

Gangs control 85% of Port-au-Prince, leaving 700,000 homeless and forcing many into overcrowded shelters.

The violence includes lynchings, summary police executions, and massacres, such as one in December that claimed over 200 lives.

Despite a Kenyan-led UN mission, only 550 of the 2,500 expected personnel have been deployed.

The UN called for more international support, an arms embargo, and an end to deportations, citing Haiti’s severe insecurity and humanitarian crisis.

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    1•1 day ago

    Someone on Lemmy was telling me recently that states are bad and that the world would be better off without them. I brought up Haiti and they did not have a good response.

    And this is why.