Kidnappings were routine, at nearly 100 a month. Last December, the newly-elected president René Préval asked the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti to do something.

The United Nations Security Council on Monday extended the mandate of its political mission in Haiti, agreeing that the ...

By Vibhu Mishra Amid runaway gang violence and crumbling state authority, the Security Council on Monday unanimously extended ...

Haiti's gangs have gained "near-total control" of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across ...

More than 3,000 people were killed in Haiti during the first six months of this year, according to the Office of the United ...

As of November 30, 2009, the UN's mission in Haiti consisted of 7,031 peacekeeping forces, 2,034 UN police, 488 international civilian staffers, 214 UN volunteers and 1,212 local civilian staffers.

The mandate supports the broader Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission, in which Kenya is playing a leading role.

The Kenyan mission to the UN did not respond to a request for comment. While the UN mulls a multinational force, gang leaders in Haiti have vowed to battle any foreign troops, if they commit abuses.

Kenya may have bulldozed over legal challenges back home, but the idea was to earn a global honour, relevant for the ...

The chief of the UN mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), missing since Tuesday's devastating earthquake flattened the mission's headquarters in Port-au-Prince, has been confirmed dead, UN officials ...

Hiati: The UN peacekeeping mission to Haiti was shaken yesterday by the apparent suicide of the Brazilian head of the UN force there, Lieut Gen Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar. Gen Bacellar (58 ...