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UN’s Guterres condemns gang attack in Haiti that killed at least 40

·September 14, 2025·1 min read

The overnight assault on11 September is the latest in a string of brutal incidents and ongoing gang violence that have plagued the country since last year. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mr. Guterres expressed “heartfelt condolences” to the victims’ families and urged Haitian authorities to pursue justice....

Haiti: UN relief chief implores ‘we have to do better’ to support gang-ravaged nation

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·September 10, 2025·4 min read

“I’m ashamed on behalf of the world that we cannot find it in ourselves to be more compassionate, to be more kind, to recognise what people here are going through,” said Tom Fletcher, who heads the UN emergency relief agency, OCHA, during a visit to the Caribbean nation. “I listened...

World News in Brief: Afghanistan quake latest, sexual violence in Haiti, WHO medicines update, deadly floods in Pakistan

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·September 6, 2025·3 min read

The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, has released $10 million in response to the urgent need for food, water, shelter and other lifesaving provisions following this week’s devastating earthquakes and aftershocks in Afghanistan. “This is the latest crisis to expose the cost of shrinking resources on vital humanitarian work,” said...

‘The people of Haiti are in a perfect storm of suffering,’ warns UN chief

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·September 1, 2025·2 min read

Six million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, while 1.3 million people – half of them children – having been forced to flee their homes, he added. ‘Shamefully overlooked’ Haiti now ranks among the five hunger hotspots worldwide that are of “highest concern,” said the UN chief. Yet it...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Haiti ‘shamefully overlooked’, warns Guterres

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·August 29, 2025·1 min read

Haitians are enduring a “perfect storm of suffering” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday as gang violence continues to paralyse daily life across the island. Around 1.3 million people – half of them children – have fled their homes and six million are relying on humanitarian assistance. Follow...

Haiti: More than 1,500 killed between April and June

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·August 2, 2025·3 min read

Between the beginning of April and the end of June, armed violence in Haiti has killed 1,520 people and injured 609 more, according to a new report on human rights in Haiti which was released on Friday. These numbers are similar to those from the first quarter of 2025...

World News in Brief: Violence in Haiti, rising insecurity in DR Congo, expert panel on nuclear war

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·July 21, 2025·2 min read

Displaced Haitians are dispersed among the 250 active displacement sites across the country, most of which are informal. Just over a fifth of these sites are managed by humanitarian organizations, meaning that many are living in precarious conditions. In June alone, more than 200 alerts were reported across displacement sites,...

World News in Brief: Haiti funding cuts bite, civilian suffering intensifies in Myanmar, Belarus deaths in custody alert

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·July 17, 2025·2 min read

Ongoing violence is compounding the country’s food crisis, disrupting local food production in critical areas such as the commune of Kenscoff and the Artibonite department, often considered the breadbaskets of Haiti. While the UN and its partners are responding “wherever and whenever possible,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said this Wednesday...

‘An unending horror story’: Gangs and human rights abuses expand in Haiti

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·July 13, 2025·2 min read

Left vulnerable, communities then formed self-defence groups and Haitian security forces reinforced their operations and made small gains only to be rebuffed again by gangs. And at all stages of this cycle, human rights violations are being committed against civilians, according to a report released on Friday by the UN...

World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism

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·June 14, 2025·3 min read

Between 1 January and 30 May, at least 2,680 people – including 54 children – were killed, 957 injured, 316 kidnapped for ransom, and many more subjected to sexual violence and child gang recruitment. “Alarming as they are, numbers cannot express the horrors Haitians are being forced to endure daily,”...

World News in Brief: Education suffers amid DR Congo violence, WHO greenlights RSV vaccines, more hurricanes ahead for Haiti

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·May 31, 2025·3 min read

According to UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, more than 290 schools have been damaged or destroyed in Ituri this year alone, bringing the total number of out-of-school children in the province to over 1.3 million. Protection crisis Between January and April 2025, a surge in violence displaced more than 100,000 people...

Haiti: Displaced children face sexual violence risk

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·May 22, 2025·2 min read

Since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, gang violence has permeated the capital Port-au-Prince and expanded into other regions, displacing over one million people. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that more than half of the displaced are children, meaning one in eight Haitian children has been...