Haiti News » Ouest (Port Au Prince) News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: How ‘Open Haiti' hashtag became rallying cry for soccer, diaspora
Ricardo Adé launched #OuvèPeyiA as Haiti's national soccer team - displaced from Port-au-Prince- unites the diaspora in Miami and carries national pride to the World Cup.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: Thousands displaced as gang violence surges in Haiti
A new wave of gang violence in the Haiti's Ouest and Artibonite departments has left dozens dead and displaced thousands, according to the World Food Programme.
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: UN staff in Haiti told to stay off streets after gang coalition flexes muscle, US Marines face gunfire
Threats from Haitian gangs reportedly prompted the United Nations (U.N.) and foreign embassies to advise staff to stay off the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince Monday. U.N. security directed ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: Haiti Gang Violence Drives Exodus From Capital To Fragile Haven Of Cap-Haïtien
CAP-HAÏTIEN — When armed men invaded the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Carrefour Feuilles in August 2023, hundreds of families had no choice but to flee. For the latest news & views from every corner ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: Haiti gangs' US terrorism designation risks harming most vulnerable, NGOs warn
PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 8 (Reuters) - The designation of Haiti's major gangs as terrorists by Washington could risk further entrenching their power by limiting financial and humanitarian aid, NGOs focused ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: In Occupied Port-au-Prince Over 1 Million Haitians Have Been Displaced by Paramilitary Gangs
As our rights are under attack by an arrogant clique of billionaires at home, the global beacon of freedom, Haiti, confronts one of the toughest moments in its centuries-long liberation struggle. The ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: Children make up half of Haiti’s gangs. They’re about to face a new foreign force.
As a new multinational force musters in Haiti, its foreign police and soldiers could soon find themselves face-to-face with hundreds of children. Children make up about 50% of armed groups in the ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: 'People can't live in Haiti safely': Sisters struggle to serve surrounded by gangs
"We can't move. We're prisoners in the motherhouse." With that, Sr. Denise Desil, the mother general of the Little Sisters of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, summed up one frustration about living now ...
News Haiti » Ouest (Port-au-Prince) » Social: After $30 Million in U.S. Aid, Haiti’s Biggest Hospital Goes Up in Smoke
A fire set by gangs at the country’s largest public hospital underscores long-simmering problems in Haiti, which is heavily dependent on international aid. By David C. Adams and Frances Robles ...