Final Report of the Panel of Experts on Haiti, S/2026/714

The Panel of Experts on Haiti, established under Security Council resolution 2653 (2022), transmitted this final report on September 3, 2026, and it was issued as S/2026/714 on September 8. It is submitted under paragraph 13 of resolution 2794 (2025), covers October 2025 to July 2026, and reflects investigations up to July 10, 2026. The Panel visited Haiti, Santo Domingo and Miami in October 2025, February 2026 and May 2026. The annexes are circulated in the languages of submission without formal editing.

On the sanctions regime, the Panel finds the arms embargo violated on a regular basis. Haitian authorities intercepted several illicit shipments at ports of entry, after seizing none in the previous period. Almost no assets have been frozen: the Bank of the Republic of Haiti and commercial banks reported frozen accounts only for two designated individuals, both with very small balances, and the Panel notes the absence of a national process to identify and freeze sanctioned assets. It found no attempt to violate the travel ban but flags persistent fraud in passport issuance. The sanctions list holds nine individuals and two entities, after resolution 2794 added Dimitri Hérard and Kempes Sanon.

The political section covers the end of the Transitional Presidential Council's mandate on February 7, 2026, when executive power passed to the Council of Ministers under the Prime Minister, and the National Pact for Stability and the Organization of Elections of February 23, whose security objectives were slow to be implemented. The security response is fragmented: the Government relies on a foreign private military contractor and on the Gang Suppression Force, which began operating in June, while residents turn to self-defense groups, private security companies and the Protected Areas Security Brigade. The Panel warns that some self-defense groups commit abuses and could form the next generation of gangs.

The Viv Ansanm alliance fractured over territory and revenue. Fighting in Cité Soleil and the Cul-de-Sac plain killed 613 people, including 214 not associated with gangs, between March 6 and July 31, 2026. From March, the Gran Grif, Kokorat San Ras and Canaan gangs attacked dozens of localities in the lower Artibonite; 400 Mawozo and Canaan consolidated control in the Centre and over routes to the Dominican border; and gang attacks reached the South-East. Between October 2025 and April 2026, 3,165 people were killed and 1,551 injured, 65 percent of casualties during security operations and 30 percent in gang attacks. Internal displacement reached 1.5 million, about 12 percent of the population, and sexual violence escalated sharply from early 2026.

On trafficking, the Panel documents firearms and ammunition reaching gangs through transnational networks and diversion from national stockpiles, with a 5.56 mm rifle selling for $5,000 to $8,000 and a single round for about $3. The police seized 356 firearms in 2025. Narcotics seizures included 1,045 kg of cocaine off Tortuga Island in July 2025, 1,156 kg in a container from Cap-Haïtien seized at Antwerp, and 1,376 kg of cannabis in the North-West in April 2026. On illicit finance, it covers kidnapping ransoms, an opaque elver trade, and $428,892 confiscated from travelers to Haiti who did not declare cash at United States borders. It recommends that the Gang Suppression Force register and manage seized materiel and share it with the Panel, that member states support disarmament, demobilization and reintegration and the police and armed forces, and that Haiti regulate the elver trade.