Haiti News » Ouest (Port Au Prince) News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » People: 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) » People: They formed to fight Haiti's gangs. Now they're an obstacle to peace.
As a U.S.-backed, U.N.-authorized force attempts to restore security, "self-defense brigades" pose a unique challenge.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » People: 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) » People: 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) » People: Violence flares in Haiti as gang attack kills 30 people
Island nation grapples with violence as it seeks to hold first elections in more than a decade.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » People: At least 40 killed as gangs attack displaced people near Haiti capital
At least 40 people have been killed, some execution-style, after gangs attacked displaced people sheltering in a church near Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince at the weekend, local authorities said.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » People: US deports more than 100 people to Haiti as gang violence persists
The U.S. government has deported more than 100 people to Haiti as it ramps up such flights to the troubled Caribbean country.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » People: Gang releases some women and children from group of 50 kidnapped in Haiti
Six children and seven women were released by a gang in Haiti that had kidnapped more than 50 people after launching a deadly attack on a community near the capital, Port-au-Prince, nearly a week ago, ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » People: ‘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) » People: New gang violence in Haiti displaces hundreds of people
PORT-AU-PRINCE – A new wave of gang violence in Haiti’s capital forced hundreds to flee their homes over the weekend, leaving families scattered along the road to the country’s main airport on Monday.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » People: 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 ...