Haiti News » Ouest (Port Au Prince) News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: Haiti gangs shift operations into countryside, report says
Sept 7 (Reuters) - Haiti's armed gangs are increasingly expanding from Port-au-Prince into rural areas, adopting hit-and-run tactics including kidnappings, cattle theft and roadblocks while security ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: Haiti’s Gangs Are Expanding Their Grip Beyond Port-au-Prince
When even the pews of a church are no longer safe, it is clear that Haiti’s violence has crossed another line. In Kenscoff, a hilltop area just a few miles from the political heart of Port-au-Prince, ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: ‘Moving Just One Block in Port-Au-Prince Was Equivalent to Traveling Nearly 1,000km Elsewhere in the World’: The Challenges of Ethnographic Journalism in Haiti
Journalist and anthropologist Juan José Martínez D'Aubuisson has reported on crime in different parts of the Americas. His most recent project took him to Haiti where local communities are struggling ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: A coalition of gangs is close to capturing the Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince
Outnumbered and outgunned - that's the status of the police force and United Nations-backed peacekeeping mission in Haiti as the transitional government there struggles against a coalition of gangs.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: Haiti police confront public frustration after deadly gang attack kills 47
The attack in Kenscoff, a community where crime had been declining, has raised questions about Haiti’s security.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: Mourners file into a church in Haiti where gangs killed dozens of people in latest rampage
More than 100 mourners in Haiti have attended funerals inside a church where gangs recently executed more than 30 people in an attack that shook the troubled country.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: Haiti's iconic Hotel Oloffson, long a cultural beacon, destroyed by gang violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —One of Haiti's most storied landmarks — a 19th-century gingerbread mansion that once hosted cultural luminaries and political intrigue — has been reduced to ashes in the latest ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: Port-au-Prince is about to fall to gangs. So is it 'crazy' to send Haitians here back to Haiti?
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As violent gangs move to take full possession of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.S. is advising Americans not to travel to Haiti — prompting security ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: Deadly Haiti drone attack kills eight children in capital Port-au-Prince
A deadly drone attack in an impoverished area of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, which killed at least 11 people, including eight children, is being blamed on the government, as the country’s use of ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: Gang coalition in Haiti spreads violence to Port-au-Prince neighborhood
A gang coalition on Saturday reinforced its attacks on one of the few communities in the Haitian capital not under the control of criminal groups seeking to take it over.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » History: Haiti: Fleeing is not enough in Port-au-Prince and other major cities
Haiti remains under the grip of armed gang federations. These include Viv Ansanm (“Living Together”), led by Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, a former police officer turned one of the country’s most ...