The Latest Breaking News from William ONeill

Both the national police and a UN-backed security force have failed to staunch the year-long insurgency, with more than a million people displaced

A powerful gang coalition has launched new attacks on Haiti’s capital, while police vow to hold the gunmen back

Kenya-led police mission to Haiti’s mandate expires next month as country continues to reel from widespread violence.

The Haitian people are suffering gravely at the hands of powerful criminal gangs, while an international security force and local police are badly lacking resources to protect them, a top UN expert said Friday.

A U.N. human rights expert says that gang violence is spreading across Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission targeting criminals remains underfunded and understaffed

An advance group of Kenyan officers, part of a larger UN-backed ‘support mission’ to stabilize Haiti, landed in Port-au-Prince

With violent insurrectionists in charge of 80% of the capital, Haiti’s police cling to their mission in the face of deadly odds

Aid workers in Haiti's capital are demonstrating great courage to brave the gangs, the stray bullets and the risk of abduction just to go to work every day, according to humanitarians operating in the chaos-wracked Caribbean nation.

Human rights expert voices alarm, saying country is fast moving towards becoming ‘like Somalia in the worst of its times’