More than 1,200 have been killed in Haiti as gangs launch fresh attacks, UN says
Since members of a powerful gang coalition began carrying out a new round of violent attacks, clouds of smoke billow across the working-class neighborhood, bullets riddle its walls and the deserted cobble-stone streets have become a scene of both terror and resistance.
A strategic neighborhood that would give members of the Viv Ansanm gang alliance access to areas of the capital not currently under their control, Solino has become the latest test for Haitian police and the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission. Despite reports of successes against gangs, the mission, which also includes three dozen Jamaican, Belizean and Bahamian security personnel, has struggled to stop the expansion of violence as armed gangs launch a new wave of coordinated attacks against several neighborhoods in the capital and towns on its outskirts.
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