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The United Nations Security Council approves a resolution establishing a Kenyan-led security force with a mandate of one year to combat gang violence in Haiti.
2023-10-2

Seven people are killed when gang members open fire on a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
2023-08-26

Two telecommunication companies in Haiti, Digicel and Access Haiti, said their fiber optic cables were severed this week, temporarily disrupting service in suspected acts of sabotage by criminal gangs.
2023-08-25

The UN Human Rights Office reports that at least 2,439 people have been killed by gang violence in Haiti this year.
2023-08-18

Kenyan foreign minister Alfred Mutua announces the country's plan to deploy 1,000 police officers to Haiti, leading a multinational force to assist local law enforcement and restoring stability, pending mandate approval from the United Nations Security Council and local authorities.
2023-07-29

The death toll rises to 9 as protesters ask for Jovenel Moïse to step down as president of Haiti. The protest started February 7.
2019-02-14

A male of critically endangered northern white rhinoceros died in reservation Ol Pejeta in Kenya. It was one of only two known males of the northern subspecies of white rhinoceros capable of natural mating. The Dvůr Králové Zoo said that he was one of seven northern white rhinos left.
2014-10-18

Hurricane Irene reaches Category 2 strength as it hits the island of Hispaniola containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
2011-08-23

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Prime Minister of the United Nations-backed Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, calls on UN agencies basing themselves in Kenya for safety reasons to move to Mogadishu within three months, citing the presence of UN agencies in "more dangerous" cities such as Kabul and Baghdad.
2011-04-5

A 4.5 magnitude aftershock strikes Haiti within days of the recent devastating earthquake.
2010-01-16