Haiti security crisis tracker

What is happening in Haiti?

Haiti gang violence: Viv Ansanm, the Gang Suppression Force and the police, a sourced timeline, what to watch, and monthly conflict events and fatalities.

This tracker reports the latest available monthly humanitarian conflict summary for Haiti, aggregated from subnational records. Armed-group territorial control and displacement are tracked separately by humanitarian agencies and are not represented in these counts.

Maintained month snapshot

This page records the committed 2026-10-01 HAPI/HDX country summaries published November 2, 2026. JavaScript can refresh newer values; the numbers above remain available without it.

Source: SUZU Monitor weekly pulse snapshot, November 2, 2026. Combined totals are withheld when covered countries report different reference months.

Background

President Jovenel Moïse was shot dead at his Port-au-Prince residence on 7 July 2021, weeks after the UN's top official in Haiti briefed the Security Council on rising gang violence. In early 2024 gang leader Jimmy 'Barbecue' Chérizier said his G9 and rival gangs had revived a non-aggression pact called Viv Ansanm. Coordinated attacks from 29 February 2024 stormed Haiti's two biggest prisons, freeing more than 4,000 inmates, and shut the main airport; Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned in April as a nine-member Transitional Presidential Council was sworn in. Sources: UN News, France 24 (1, 2).

A Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission, launched in October 2023, landed its first contingent on 25 June 2024 but, UN News said, stayed underfunded and never deployed its mandated 2,500 personnel. On 30 September 2025 the Security Council authorised a Gang Suppression Force of up to 5,550 uniformed personnel; its first Chadian troops arrived on 1 April 2026. Resolution 2829 of 29 September 2026 renewed the force to 31 March 2027, with China, Russia and Pakistan abstaining. As of 12 October 2026 it had 1,563 uniformed members. Sources: UN News (1, 2), France 24, Al Jazeera, UN press.

The UN reported 1,123 people killed in gang-related violence between July and early October 2026, and an attack on Kenscoff on 23-24 August killed at least 47. IOM counted nearly 1.5 million displaced people in September 2026, almost 80 per cent of them outside Port-au-Prince, with the steepest rise in Artibonite. On 7 October the electoral council postponed the 13 December first-round elections indefinitely; Haiti has not held national elections since 2016. Armed-group territorial control and displacement are tracked separately by humanitarian agencies and are not in the counts on this page. Sources: UN News (1, 2), France 24.

Key actors

• Viv Ansanm — Gang coalition led by Jimmy Chérizier, also listed as G-9 and Living Together, added to the UN Haiti sanctions list on 8 July 2025. (UN press)
• Gran Grif — Also known as Gran Grif de Savien and led by Luckson Elan; listed by the UN Haiti sanctions committee alongside Viv Ansanm on 8 July 2025. (UN press)
• Haitian National Police (HNP) — Runs daily patrols and large-scale operations in gang-held areas, supported by the international force and a private security company. (France 24)
• Gang Suppression Force (GSF) — International force mandated to 31 March 2027; the United States named Chad, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mongolia and Sri Lanka as contributors. (UN press)
• Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé — Sole executive since 7 February 2026, when the Transitional Presidential Council handed over after nearly two years; backed by Washington. (France 24)

Timeline

1. July 7, 2021 — President Jovenel Moïse was shot dead in an overnight attack at his private residence in Port-au-Prince. (UN News)
2. February 29, 2024 — Gangs launched coordinated attacks across Port-au-Prince, storming the two biggest prisons and freeing more than 4,000 inmates. (France 24)
3. April 25, 2024 — Ariel Henry's resignation was released as the nine-member Transitional Presidential Council, mandated to 7 February 2026, was sworn in. (France 24)
4. September 30, 2025 — The Security Council authorised the Gang Suppression Force to replace the Kenya-led mission: 5,550 uniformed personnel, 12-month mandate. (UN News)
5. February 7, 2026 — The Transitional Presidential Council handed power to Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, now the only politician with executive power. (France 24)
6. April 1, 2026 — An advance team of Chadian troops, the Gang Suppression Force's first deployment, arrived with Special Representative Jack Christofides. (Al Jazeera)
7. August 23, 2026 — Gunmen attacked Kenscoff, south-east of Port-au-Prince; the UN reported at least 47 killed, 22 wounded and 52 taken hostage. (UN News)
8. September 29, 2026 — The Security Council adopted resolution 2829, renewing the Gang Suppression Force until 31 March 2027 with three abstentions. (UN press)
9. October 7, 2026 — The Provisional Electoral Council postponed the 13 December first round of presidential and legislative elections indefinitely. (France 24)

What to watch

• Killings outside Port-au-Prince. The UN says gangs are spreading into rural areas, with 241 killed in West and Artibonite for allegedly resisting them; rising rural counts signal expansion. Tracked in the UCDP Conflict Events panel on the live dashboard.
• Displacement outside the capital. IOM put almost 80 per cent of 1.5 million displaced people outside Port-au-Prince in September 2026; a rising share means the crisis is becoming national. Tracked in the Displacement Flows map layer on the live dashboard.
• Gang Suppression Force deployment. At 1,563 uniformed members against 5,550 authorised in October 2026, deployment pace decides whether recovered areas can be held; the Council reviews it in March 2027. Tracked in the Force Posture panel on the live dashboard.
• Election timetable. The 13 December vote was postponed with 759,257 of 6.5 million estimated voters registered; the UN warned new dates without a feasibility assessment would erode confidence. Tracked in the Country Instability panel on the live dashboard.

Background, actors, timeline and watch list last reviewed October 24, 2026 against the linked sources. They are context for the monthly figures above, not part of the HAPI/HDX dataset.

Country readings

Haiti is not in the Country Instability Index's monitored set, so only its structural resilience reading is shown. Instability is a live 0-100 stress score; resilience is a structural 0-100 index ranked across countries. Both describe each country as a whole, not this crisis alone, and a country without a reading reflects index coverage, not a statement about risk.

Sources: Country Instability Index published pulse and the country resilience index snapshot used on each country page.

Coverage boundary

Haiti (HT). Events outside this list are not included in the live totals on this page.

How to read this tracker

Use these monthly country summaries as a bounded pulse, then inspect the dashboard for event-level context, map layers, and other independent signals. The figures are not forecasts and should not be interpreted as a complete casualty or incident ledger. SUZU Monitor's forecasts are graded separately, and that record is published on the forecast accuracy scorecard.

Questions about the Haiti security crisis

Download: tracker.json. Scope source: SUZU Monitor crisis registry. Maintained metrics: HAPI/HDX humanitarian conflict summaries from the UN OCHA Humanitarian API.

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