The transitional government should prioritize governance over competing personal and political interests. Now is not the time for political infighting.’

Maria Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, presented her report on the situation in Haiti to the Security Council via

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the international community to provide urgent additional financial support to the Mission to prevent gangs from taking over the entire metropolitan area of

Haiti's capital could become overrun by criminal gangs if the international community does not step up aid to a UN-backed security mission to the Caribbean nation, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned in a report Wednesday.

The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement in Haiti, largely caused by gang violence, has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people — a record in the Caribbean nation.

More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security mission last year, U.

Kenya’s interior minister says the east African nation has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a Kenya-led multinational force to curb gang violence.

The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement within Haiti has tripled over the last year and now surpasses 1 million people.

The United Nations chief is warning that gangs in Haiti could overrun the capital, Port-au-Prince, leading to a complete breakdown of government authority without additional international support for the beleaguered national police.

The latest attacks occurred a day after gangs shot up an armored vehicle belonging to the U.S. Embassy in Haiti.

Haiti is showing signs of progress on the political front despite serious setbacks in terms of security, the Special Representative and Head of the UN office in the country, BINUH, told the Security Council on Wednesday.