More than 230 dead and injured in five days in Haiti
In a densely populated slum in Haiti According to the UN, more than 230 people have been killed or injured in the capital Port-au-Prince within five days. The UN High Commissioner announced on Saturday in Geneva that people fell victim to rampant gang crime in the Cité Soleil district between July 8 and 12.
Most of the at least 234 victims reportedly had no connection to the criminal gangs, but were nevertheless targeted by them. There is also new information about sexual violence. In the first half of the year alone, the UN registered 934 deaths, 684 injuries and 680 kidnappings in connection with acts of violence, according to the High Commissioner in Haiti.
the one of poverty politically and natural disasters, the Caribbean country has not been able to rest for years. The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 and a severe earthquake the following month that killed 2,200 have further exacerbated the country’s problems. Currently, the population is also struggling with a sharp rise in food prices and fuel shortages.
Of the U.N.The Security Council called on all member states on Friday to stop arms deliveries to armed gangs in Haiti. The delivery of “small caliber weapons and ammunition to non-state actors” had to be banned, according to the resolution submitted by Mexico and the United States.