Security

Haiti entered 2024 with the country’s multidimensional crisis at its most acute yet, with UN officials warning that gang networks

A UN report released in early 2024 covering 2023 data documented 4,789 reported homicides and 2,490 kidnappings in Haiti during

UN officials confirmed by late 2023 that criminal gangs controlled an estimated 80 percent of Port-au-Prince and its metropolitan area,

A massacre in the Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood of Port-au-Prince in late 2023 killed dozens of civilians as gang networks targeted a

A 2023 UN report provided detailed documentation of how illegal weapons were flowing from the United States — primarily from

Haitian criminal networks organized a counter-movement called Zam Pale — meaning “Guns Speak” in Haitian Creole — in response to

Reports from across Haiti’s ten departments in 2023 painted a consistent and alarming picture: the Haitian National Police was losing

The Haitian National Police faced an acute recruitment and retention crisis in 2023, with deaths, dismissals, and resignations reducing the

The Bwa Kale anti-gang vigilante movement exploded across Port-au-Prince in the spring of 2023, with community groups killing more than

The United Nations reported in April 2023 that criminal incidents in Haiti had more than doubled in the first quarter