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Haiti is in danger and urgently needs assistance from the United Nations, Haiti’s minister for foreign affairs, Victor Geneus, told the United Nations Security Council last week.
Haiti’s crime rate has doubled over the last year, the UN Security Council confirmed, as the world stands by watching gang violence expand in the capital, overrunning police and terrorizing the local community.
Almost 50 percent of Haiti’s population lives on less than $2 a day, with limited infrastructure and resources.Vulnerable residents are living under threat of the daily kidnappings, theft, assassinations, and rapes, which Geneus called the “modus operandi” of the criminals vying for power in the streets.
Port-au-Prince has routinely experienced gun fights between gangs and police, or turf battles between criminal groups following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021.
More and more Haitian migrants are turning up at border crossings in Central and South America in search of a better life. On top of the criminal violence, cholera outbreaks, earthquakes, and natural disasters have pushed the fragile country of 11 million people to the breaking point.
Haiti’s caretaker government and UN officials are calling on the international community to help Haitian police quell the expanding violence.
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