The United Nations Safety Council on Friday mentioned it had authorized the addition of 4 suspected Haitian gang leaders to its sanctions listing, a long-awaited addition because the Caribbean nation faces a worsening humanitarian disaster.
The U.N. slapped sanctions on Renel Destina, believed to be the principle chief of the Grand Ravine gang, in addition to Vitel’homme Harmless, understood to move of the Kraze Barye gang, Johnson Andre of 5 Segond and Wilson Joseph of 400 Mawozo.
The U.S. Treasury Division had earlier on Friday introduced contemporary sanctions in opposition to the identical 4 people.
The long-awaited U.N. sanctions announcement comes because it calls on international locations to volunteer troops for a multinational safety mission to assist nationwide police struggle the gangs which have expanded their management over a lot of the Haitian territory.
Beforehand, the worldwide physique had solely sanctioned one Haitian: Jimmy Cherizier, a former police officer and chief of the G9 Alliance, which competes with the G-Pep alliance for management over swathes of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.
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