The UN Security Council has now decided on how to deal with the Haiti Crisis, and their solution is to send a peacekeeping force led by Kenya to fight the gangs taking over the country.
The UN Security Council is deliberating on establishing a multinational security support mission for Haiti as the country grapples with escalating violence and insecurity driven by entrenched criminal gangs.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the country will pledge to help a UN multinational force led by Kenya that will be dealing with the Haiti Crisis.
Saying that Haiti is in crisis would be an understatement as gangs run most of the capital, Port-au-Prince, while its neighbor, the Dominican Republic, has just shut down its borders.
The Dominican Republic's president is closing all borders with Haiti due to a dispute over a canal on the Haitian side that would use water from a shared river starting Friday.
Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader announced that all borders with Haiti, including air, sea, and land borders, would close as a dispute over a canal continues.
The Dominican Republic may close its border with Haiti in the northern Dajabon province if the dispute over shared river water access remains unresolved soon, according to a government spokesperson on Monday.
Evangelical leader Marcorel Zidor led a contingent of 'hundreds' of armed protesters into a district of the capital, Port-au-Prince, under a Haiti gang's control.
A powerful Haiti gang unleashed gunfire upon a sizable assembly of parishioners led by a pastor as they marched through a neighborhood armed with machetes to expel gang members from the area.
Tensions heightened in the Haiti capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday as many protesters gathered in the streets to voice their concerns about the severe gang violence plaguing the country.
The Haiti kidnapping of American nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter sparked protests in the beleaguered country as locals demand the release of the New Hampshire woman.
An American nurse from New Hampshire was kidnapped along with her son while doing community work in Haiti. The nonprofit she worked for confirmed her kidnapping on Saturday.
The Haiti crisis continues to simmer as armed gangs attack a Port-au-Prince hospital, forcing aid group Doctors Without Borders to suspend their treatment.