The government of Haiti says police have launched a large-scale operation in a shantytown controlled by powerful gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, who is widely known as Barbecue. The authorities say several gang members have been killed in the Lower Delmas area of the capital Port-au-Prince.

Haiti’s government has revealed that police have launched a large-scale operation in an area controlled by powerful gang leader Jimmy Chérizier alias Barbecue. Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé said the operation conducted on March 1 targeted the Delmas 6 neighborhood of Port-au-Prince,

Haitian police officers are demanding better protection and treatment a day after gunmen killed a Kenyan policeman who was part of a U.N.

A Kenyan police officer who was on patrol with the international security force in Haiti has been killed in a confrontation with gang members. The officer, 26-year-old Police Constable Samuel Kitwai, is the first casualty suffered by the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support mission (MSS).