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Taken: Kidnapping surge in Haiti
With kidnapping incidents in Haiti surging, Neil Mugabe examines the current dynamics driving targeted attacks on foreign personnel and highlights emerging hotspots amid intensifying gang violence.
With kidnapping incidents in Haiti surging, Neil Mugabe examines the current dynamics driving targeted attacks on foreign personnel and highlights emerging hotspots amid intensifying gang violence.
As a Kenyan-led multinational mission enters Haiti to support local police in combatting gang violence, Erin Drake considers what such a mission can realistically achieve amid a host of challenges, including seemingly poor planning, funding uncertainty, and a legacy of failed intervention – not to mention the potential fallout of clashes in densely-populated…
Escalating gang violence in Haiti has rendered the Caribbean nation a failed state, with few immediate prospects for a route out of anarchy. Armed criminal gangs now number in their hundreds; here, Markus Korhonen profiles the most significant of them.
As violence and insecurity escalate in Haiti, aid workers and foreign nationals face mounting threats and challenges to operating in – or attempting to leave – the country, writes Erin Drake.
As organised crime spreads in Haiti’s ongoing security vacuum, foreign nationals and non-governmental organisations face increased threats of crime and kidnapping in 2022, writes Richard Gardiner.
With a resurgence of kidnapping in 2021 following a Covid-19-driven hiatus the previous year, Markus Korhonen looks at some of the emerging trends in kidnapping, and how those are likely to be sustained over the coming twelve months.
Haiti’s declining appeal as a foreign investment destination will suffer further setbacks as a weak, post-assassination interim government faces ongoing instability and struggles to prepare for elections, writes Erin Drake.
Against the backdrop of a deteriorating security environment characterised by gang violence and persistent civil unrest, the prevalence of kidnapping in Haiti has increased dramatically. Markus Korhonen looks into the kidnapping business in Haiti, and explains why the underlying conditions promise little reprieve from this threat looking forward.
In recent months, kidnappings have increased in Haiti. Emboldened by widespread political instability, violent protests, and the recent COVID-19 outbreak, criminals will continue to make use of the country’s unstable security environment to step up kidnapping activities, writes Erin Drake.
Several significant elections are scheduled to take place around the world in 2019, and we review a number of these in this article. From Nigeria to Indonesia, Ukraine and Libya, the outcome of the 2019 electoral season will not only determine the sociopolitical and economic trajectories of individual countries, but also impact domestic and regional…