The security situation in Haiti degraded further in October despite months of support from the United Nations and Kenyan-led forces sent in to aid the Haitian police. Gang violence, once primarily concentrated in Haiti’s capital city, has now expanded ...

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has been fired by the country's ruling council less than six months after he took office. An executive order, signed by eight of the council's nine members, named businessman and former Haiti Senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime as Conille's replacement.

It marks even more turmoil in an already rocky democratic transition process for Haiti, which hasn't held democratic elections in years in a large part due to the soaring levels of gang violence.