United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres - FILE PHOTO
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres visited Haiti on Tuesday, with surging gang violence having already left more than one in 10 people homeless.
New statistics released by the U.N. reveal that 2,300 people have been killed across Haiti so far this year, with another 100 kidnapped, while 1.5 million have been displaced.
The Secretary-General's one-day visit to Port-au-Prince came after more than 30 people were killed, wounded or abducted last weekend in Cité Soleil.
His first stop was at the headquarters of the new gang-suppression force, which the U.N. Security Council approved in September.
It replaces a U.N.-backed mission, led by Kenyan police that aimed to help Haiti's National Police fight gangs but remained underfunded and understaffed.
So far, Jamaica, Chad, El Salvador and Guatemala have deployed troops that number less than a thousand to form part of the growing force, which is due to start operations in the coming weeks.
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