Haiti: State of emergency extended in the face of gang violence. Ten police buildings destroyed and two civilian prisons emptied Criminal gangs, who control the roads leading from Port-au-Prince to the rest of the territory, have attacked strategic sites in the country in recent days.
The crisis in Haiti “is more than unbearable for the Haitian people,” denounced Wednesday the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, while the Security Council spoke of a “critical” situation.