Ask for more help, support to the police amid violence in violence in the Caribbean nation since the end of last year.
Haiti is approaching a “point without return”, since he struggles to respond to the violence of intense gangs, said the United Nations senior official in the country.
Maria Isabel Salvador, the UN special representative for the Caribbean Nation, delivered the warning to the UN Security Council on Monday.
“As the violence of gangs continues to extend to new areas of the country, Haitians experience increasing levels of vulnerability and increasing skepticism about the state’s ability to respond to their needs,” said Salvador.
“Haiti could face total chaos,” he said, adding that help and support for international force displayed to stop the violence of rampant gangs was desperately necessary to avoid that destiny.
“He urges him to remain committed and respond the urgent needs of the country and its people,” he said.
Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, faces severe political instability, with stripes of the country under the control of rival armed gangs that carry out murder, rapes and generalized kidnappings.
Salvador cited outbreaks of anger and gender violence along with a deteriorated security situation.
More recently, said Salvador, the gangs confiscated the city of Mirebalais in the center of Haiti, releasing more than 500 prisoners who gave the assault. It was the fifth prison in less than a year and “part of a deliberate effort to strengthen domain, dismantle institutions and instill fear,” he said.
Armed gangs have also fought more and more for the control of the capital, port prince, with intense violence in intensity when rival gangs try to establish new territories, he said.
Meanwhile, a force led by Kenya authorized by the UN has not been able to delay gangs since the deployment was in June last year. The mission has around 1,000 police officers from six countries, below the originally planned 2,500.
Kenya’s National Security Advisor, Monica Juma, told the Council in an informative video of Nairobi that the force has entered “a decisive phase of its operation” where the gangs are coordinating the operations and attack the strategic people and facilities.
While the Haitian police and multinational force have launched intensive operations against gangs and have achieved remarkable progress, especially in obtaining a critical infrastructure, he said that there is a significant gap.
The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guerres, also warned that more immediate international support was required to allow the National Police to prevent the capital from sliding closer to the edge “, agreeing to an unpublished report seen by the AFP news agency.
The report detailed the increase in violence, with the UN registering 2,660 homicides in the three months since December 2024, an increase of 41.3 percent over the previous quarter.
But the report also pointed out a high civil cost in efforts to counteract gangs.
Duration The period, the Anti-Gang operations resulted in 702 people killed, with an estimated 21 percent who are innocent civilians, according to the report.
There was also an alarm in gender violence, with 347 incidents reported in the five months until February 2025, according to UN data.
Collective violation was the most common violation, representing 61 percent of cases.