INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
saying that he sought advice from a Voodoo priest who accused elderly people in the area of harming the child through witchcraft.Gang
members killed at least 60 people on Friday and 50 on Saturday using machetes and knives, it said.Cite Soleil, a densely populated slum by
the port of the capital Port-au-Prince, is among the poorest and most violent areas of Haiti.Tight gang control, including the restriction
Viv Ansanm alliance of gangs across Port-au-Prince, has been sanctioned by the United Nations on charges of planning the La Saline massacre
breadbasket Artibonite region, in what the Gran Grif gang said was retaliation for residents working with a self-defense group hindering
around the capital.Haitian authorities had in 2022 requested international security support for local police, but the mission - based on
voluntary contributions - that the United Nations approved in 2023 has only partially deployed and is severely under-resourced.Haitian
leaders have since called for the mission to be converted into a U.N
peacekeeping force to ensure it is better supplied, but the plan stalled amid opposition from China and Russia in the Security
Council.Source: Reuters--Agencies
