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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) » Social: More than 50 kidnapped after violent gang attack in Haiti leaves 47 dead
It is believed to be one of the largest mass kidnappings in Haiti in recent years, and one gang leader is threatening to kill the hostages if authorities kill any gang members as they try to secure ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: Gang coalition in Haiti spreads violence to Port-au-Prince neighborhood, setting fire to homes
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — 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) » Social: Gang attack on hillside town near Haiti's capital leaves 30 dead
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 24 (Reuters) - At least 30 people were killed in a gang raid in the neighborhood of Kenscoff near Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, Kenscoff's mayor Jean Massillon told Reuters on ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: ‘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) » Social: Gang activity in Haiti's Ouest department, June 2024
Janes recorded a significant reduction in gang raids and attacks on infrastructure in June compared with May The reduction in violence likely indicated that gangs had prioritised consolidating control ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: Haiti gang attack on journalists covering a hospital reopening leaves 2 dead, several wounded
Haiti’s online media association said two reporters were killed and several others were wounded in a gang attack on Tuesday on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital. Street gangs ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: Haiti expands state of emergency to cover entire territory
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Haiti has expanded its state of emergency to cover the entire nation's territory, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Garry Conille said on Wednesday, as the Caribbean ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: Blinken announces aid, US support for peacekeeping force on Haiti visit
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has travelled to Haiti to show the United States’ support for a multinational effort to combat gang violence in the Caribbean nation. Blinken arrived in ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: Haiti could be ‘completely isolated’ as gunfire closes main airport again
Haiti’s main international airport remains shut down for the second time this year after three United States commercial passenger planes were hit by suspected gang gunfire, leaving the conflict-torn ...