The security situation is improving in Port-au-Prince, as declared by the Haitian Prime Minister at the UN.
This development was facilitated, according to Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, by the action of the UN's anti-gang force, which replaced a more modest mission supported by the UN and led by the Kenyan police, which lacked personnel and financial resources.
"We are deeply convinced that without security, no development is possible. Concrete results are beginning to be felt thanks to the Haitian armed forces, the national police, and the anti-gang force; several neighborhoods in the capital are gradually being retaken. Economic and social life is slowly but surely resuming," Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, Prime Minister of Haiti.
Haitian police claim to now control 72% of the capital. This contrasts sharply with the fact that gangs controlled almost the entire city until June of last year.
Gang violence in the country resulted in at least 5,519 deaths and 2,608 injuries between March 1, 2025 and January 15, 2026, according to the latest data from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
