The United Nations is now appealing for people to help it raise Ksh98 billion (USD674 million) as aid for Haitians afflicted with the ongoing conflict.
A representative from the UN, Ulrika Richardson, indicated that millions of citizens in that country continue to endure inhuman treatment.
“I’ve seen things here that I’ve never seen in my life,” that go beyond “your worst nightmare," he told the press.
According to Richardson, 5.5 million individuals need assistance with 40 percent of the population in dire need of food.
A total of 314,000 individuals have also been forced to flee their homes, Newsday, an international media outlet reported.
As a result, the UN appealed to wellwishers across the globe to contribute the funds aimed at helping alleviate the suffering and according to Haiti residents decent meals.
Kenyans.co.ke earlier reported that kidnappings and killings had spiked in the Caribbean country with experts speculating that the situation continued to worsen as a result of Kenya's delay in deploying 1,000 police officers.
Over 3,400 citizens have been killed, maimed or kidnapped so far with the Miami Herald, a US-based media outlet, ranking January 2024 as the most violent month on record with over 1,100 lives affected.
The data also showed that at least one individual is killed every two hours and 17 left nursing injuries every day.
“The already dire human rights situation has deteriorated even further, amid unrelenting and expanding gang violence, with disastrous consequences for Haitians. “Every day that passes, more casualties are being recorded,” United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk stated.
President William Ruto had in October offered to deploy 1,000 police officers from Kenya to lead a multi-agency team in tackling the gangs that had taken over 80 per cent of the country.
Ruto's efforts were, however, curtailed by numerous court rulings that termed the deployment unconstitutional.
The latest court ruling by Justice Chacha Mwita delivered last month indicated that the National Security Council and the National Police Service (NPS) have no powers to deploy the officers outside the country.
