A Kenyan-led multinational force will hopefully help bring some semblance of stability to Haiti, where gang violence has escalated into a form of "urban guerrilla" warfare, the Caribbean country's police chief tells AFP. The UN Security Council gave the green light this month for the deployment of a thousand-strong support force led by Kenyan police, after a year of repeated calls for help from Haiti.

A UN-backed force is finally being sent to try and restore calm to Haiti, but experts fear it may have no more success than previous foreign interventions in an impoverished nation hit by crisis after crisis.

The deployment will take place after nine months and will last a year.

The cabinet secretary for Kenya's foreign and diaspora affairs said alongside Kenya, 10 other countries are willing to help Haiti by deploying troops or financing the multinational security support mission.

While child migrants make up 13% of the global migrant population, it has climbed to an astounding 25% in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Haiti became a hotbed of gang violence after the assassination of former president Jovenel Moise in 2021.

The United States and Canada has expressed disinterest in sending armed troops to Haiti to help them deal with their current humanitarian crisis, despite pleas from the United Nations and the country.

Haiti’s 10 remaining senators see their terms come to a close this week leading the country's political crisis into a deep spiral of violence and instability.

Despite calls from the United Nations to intervene in the current crisis happening in Haiti, the international community has largely taken no action to start the necessary coalition to address the issues.

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared a state of emergency Tuesday to fight a surge in gang violence on the island.

The head of Haiti’s National Police Academy was shot to death over the weekend in the Pétion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.

Ecuador bolstered its security as the nation is hit by intense waves of violence amid riots sparking within several prisons as well as gang-related conflicts in the streets

A teenage boy was killed in a hit-and-run Sunday morning that involved two vehicles in South Los Angeles.

Florida rapper Rollie Bands was murdered outside his home on Friday after he reportedly goaded his opponents and enemies in an Instagram story, providing them with his location while daring them to make a move.

Manchester police have apologized and vowed to increase their patrols in Oldham as it continues its investigation into a boy who was brutally beaten by a gang in June.

The suspect in Sacramento mass shooting faced the capital city’s Superior Court for the first time last Friday but has not entered a plea.

Authorities are trying to determine the motive of shooting Mark Hall, associated with members of a cross-border crime gang heavily involved in drug and break-ins.

Cancun continues to see an increase in violent incidents as a group of potential gang members rode through its beachside hotels on jet skis while shooting guns in the air.

An Ecuadoran prison riot killed 68 people on Saturday as the gang-related violence inside their overtaxed and overpopulated prison system continues to worsen.

A man attempted to hang himself in Rikers Island on Monday as a political visit showed the deplorable conditions of the prison for both the prisoners and the guards.

Rikers Island continues to go through a "summer of hell" as chaos forms within the prison population due to the lack of officers guarding them.

Four members of a violent Brooklyn street gang based at the Louis Heaton Pink Houses in East New York have been slapped with charges on Monday related to the slaying of a woman who took the stand against them in a 2017 trial, prosecutors say. 

A teenage boy was fatally shot by two gunmen on scooters in the Bronx on Sunday just hours after the shooting death of a 13-year-old, the New York Police Department (NYPD) unveiled. It comes a year after the victim barely survived another gang-related shooting.

Two top members of the outlaw Pagan’s Motorcycle Club were seized by law enforcement on Monday, marking the latest arrests in a long-running federal probe into the illegal activities of the biker gang, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig.

Clashes have sparked political assassinations and the forced displacement of thousands ahead of crunch Jun. 6 polls.

A teenage boy in Leeds was attacked with a machete by a gang who left him with a severed hand.

In the past too, there have been attacks where Mexican drug gangs killed suspected street-level dealers from rival gangs who had sought shelter at such facilities.