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People walk past burning tires during a protest against Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Banks, schools and government agencies closed in Haiti’s northern and southern regions on Monday while protesters blocked main routes with blazing tires and paralyzed public transportation, according to local media reports. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Former rebel leader arrives in Haiti’s capital as protests against prime minister gain momentum

By Evens Sanon - Associated Press

A National Police officer patrols an intersection in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. A court in Kenya on Friday blocked the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force to help fight gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haitians suffering gang violence are desperate after Kenyan court blocks police force deployment

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Michael Geilenfeld arrives at U.S. Bankruptcy Court, July 9, 2015, in Portland, Maine. Geilenfeld, the American founder of a Haitian orphanage who had charges of sexual abuse against him dropped in the island nation, was set to appear in federal court Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, on new charges brought by U.S. authorities. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

American founder of Haitian orphanage to appear in court on sexual abuse charges

By Colleen Slevin - Associated Press

People walk past the front entrance of the Sisters of Saint-Anne residence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince is pleading for the release of six nuns from the congregation who were kidnapped last week and demanding that Haiti's government crack down on gang violence. AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Six nuns and two other people kidnapped in Haiti have been released, archbishop says

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In this July 9, 2015 file photo, Michael Geilenfeld arrives at U.S. Bankruptcy Court, in Portland, Maine. Federal prosecutors say the founder of an orphanage in Haiti is facing criminal charges in the U.S. for allegedly traveling to the Caribbean island nation to engage in sex acts with minors. Geilenfeld previously sued a Maine activist over accusations of abusing boys, calling them “vicious, vile lies,” before the investigation by the Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI led to an indictment in Miami. His attorney had no comment Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. The 71-year-old Geilenfeld, who was arrested in Colorado, is expected to have a detention hearing this week in Denver before being flown to Miami. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Former orphanage founder in Haiti faces federal charges of sexually abusing minors

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A person holds a photo of late Haitian President Jovenel Moise during his memorial ceremony at the National Pantheon Museum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 20, 2021. A federal judge in Miami on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, sentenced a former Haitian senator John Joel Joseph to life in prison for conspiring to kill Haiti’s President Moïse in 2021, which caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Former Haitian senator sentenced to life in prison in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president

By Gisela Salomon - Associated Press

Coup leader Guy Philippe repatriated to Haiti as many question his next role in country in upheaval

By Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto - Associated Press

FILE - Residents flee their homes to escape clashes between armed gangs in the Carrefour-Feuilles district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 15, 2023. Kenya’s government said Nov. 9, 2023 that its police will not be deployed to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding are met in line with last month’s approval from the U.N Security Council to give the eastern African country command of a multinational mission to combat violent gangs in Haiti. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

Kenya’s high court extends a block on sending police to Haiti even as parliament approves deployment

By Emmanuel Igunza - Associated Press

People from Juana Mendez, on the Haitian side of the border, wait in vain to be allowed to cross into Dajabon, Dominican Republic, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The Dominican Republic partially reopened its border with Haiti on Wednesday to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier in a continuing spat over the construction of a canal targeting water from a shared river. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)

Tensions between Dominican Republic and Haiti flare after a brief armed standoff at the border

By Martín Adames Alcántara - Associated Press

FILE - Residents flee their homes to escape clashes between armed gangs in the Carrefour-Feuilles district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 15, 2023. Kenya’s government said Nov. 9, 2023 that its police will not be deployed to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding are met in line with last month’s approval from the U.N Security Council to give the eastern African country command of a multinational mission to combat violent gangs in Haiti. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

Kenya says it won’t deploy police to fight gangs in Haiti until they receive training and funding

By Emmanuel Igunza and Dánica Coto - Associated Press

FILE - An image of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is displayed at a news conference, Feb. 14, 2023, in Miami. A federal judge in Miami on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 sentenced Germán Alejandro Rivera García, a retired Colombian army officer, to life in prison for his role in plotting to kill Moïse on July 7, 2021. He is the second of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami to be sentenced. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Retired Colombian army officer gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president

By Gisela Salomon - Associated Press

FILE - Garcelle Beauvais arrives at an event in Los Angeles. Humanitarian donations to conflict-ravaged Haiti have dramatically declined since the assassination of its President Jovenel Moïse in 2021, but the W.K. Kellogg Foundation wants to reverse that with a new $90 million campaign it calls “Pockets of Hope.” Beauvais, who emigrated from Haiti to the United States as a child, told The Associated Press that she wanted to support “Pockets of Hope” to let Haitians know that they have not been forgotten by the rest of the world. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Garcelle Beauvais teams with Kellogg Foundation for a $90M plan to expand ‘Pockets of Hope’ in Haiti

By Glenn Gamboa - Associated Press

Kenya Cabinet Secretary for defence Aden Duale speaks during the joint press conference after a signing defence cooperation agreement in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday Sept. 25, 2023. The U.S. and Kenya signed a defense agreement Monday that will see the East African nation get resources and support for security deployments as it is poised to lead a multi-national peacekeeping mission to Haiti to combat gang violence. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Kenya Cabinet approved sending police to lead peace mission in Haiti but parliament must sign off

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

Dominican soldiers stand on the bridge that crosses the border between Haiti and Dajabon in the Dominican Republic, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The Dominican Republic partially reopened its border with Haiti on Wednesday to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier in a continuing spat over the construction of a canal targeting water from a shared river. (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)

Haiti refuses to open key border crossing with Dominican Republic in spat over canal

By Dánica Coto and Evens Sanon - Associated Press

FILE - People bathe in the Massacre River, named for a bloody battle between Spanish and French colonizers in the 1700s, on the border with Haiti in Ouanaminthe, Dominican Republic, Nov. 19, 2021. The Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader announced on Sept. 11, 2023 he has suspended issuing visas to Haitians. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Dominican Republic has partially reopened its border with Haiti. But a diplomatic crisis persists

By Martín Adames Alcántara and Dánica Coto - Associated Press

A protester holds up a machete as a symbol of self-defense against gangs, during a protest against gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. Kenya’s president is committing his country to lead a multinational force in Haiti to combat gang warfare even as residents of both countries question the plan being pushed by the United States government. President William Ruto was speaking Wednesday, Sept. 20 at a ceremony establishing diplomatic ties with the Caribbean nation. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, file)

Kenyan opposition lawmakers say the Haiti peacekeeping mission must be approved by parliament

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

People wearing masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic wait to buy low-cost cooking gas from the Petrobrás Oil Tankers Union in the Vila Vintem favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, March 12, 2021. The union promoted the sale as part of a solidarity campaign to mark The National Day of Struggles in Defense of State-owned Companies. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

What to know about a U.N. vote to send a Kenya-led force to Haiti to curb gang violence

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

People wearing masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic wait to buy low-cost cooking gas from the Petrobrás Oil Tankers Union in the Vila Vintem favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, March 12, 2021. The union promoted the sale as part of a solidarity campaign to mark The National Day of Struggles in Defense of State-owned Companies. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

U.N. Security Council approves sending a Kenya-led force to Haiti to fight violent gangs

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Prime Minister of Haiti Ariel Henry, left, greets Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Alfred Nganga Mutua, right, before United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses diplomats during a meeting on the security situation in Haiti in New York on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (Bing Guan/Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. pledges $100M to back proposed Kenyan-led multinational force to Haiti

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

A protester holds up a machete as a symbol of self-defense against gangs, during a protest against gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. Kenya’s president is committing his country to lead a multinational force in Haiti to combat gang warfare even as residents of both countries question the plan being pushed by the United States government. President William Ruto was speaking Wednesday, Sept. 20 at a ceremony establishing diplomatic ties with the Caribbean nation. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, file)

Kenya’s president is committing his country to lead a multinational force to Haiti to combat gangs

By Cara Anna - Associated Press