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Only 10 percent of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, remains under the control of the Haitian government. And even this last stronghold is now on the verge of collapse, putting the entire ...
A nine-year-old boy who leads a gang of four or five other boys holds a shotgun. The neighbourhood where he was photographed, Solino, had recently been invaded by larger armed groups, upsetting an ...
With the capital of Haiti on the cusp of falling to gangs, authorities in the crisis-racked Caribbean nation are turning to a new weapon in their fight against the armed groups: weaponized drones.
A former special envoy to Haiti blames what he views as former President Joe Biden's absentee approach to decision-making for the current woes afflicting the Caribbean nation. Daniel Foote served ...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has ruled out transitioning the multinational security support mission (MSS) in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping force for now, and is instead recommending ...
A gang leader in Haiti who controls a key port in the country’s capital was accused of slaughtering the elderly and Vodou religious leaders in droves during a bloody campaign to avenge his son ...
In this file photo, a man walks past the government port in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where graffiti on the walls calls for the DEA to arrest someone for drug dealing. Jose A. Iglesias jiglesias@ ...
The daughter and son-in-law of Missouri House of Representatives member Ben Baker were killed while serving as missionaries in Haiti, the politician said on social media. Baker's daughter ...
But can a multinational security mission provide Haiti with a way out of its current crisis? My experience studying authoritarianism and democratization in Latin America and the Caribbean tells me ...
Chaos in Haiti has reached new heights in recent weeks. Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he would step down amid growing violence and a humanitarian crisis. Armed gangs, whose power has surged in ...
Criminal gangs more powerful that Haiti's state security forces have attacked prisons and the airport serving the country's capital, forcing businesses and schools to close and driving an ...
The US military started airlifting embassy staff out of Haiti overnight as the Caribbean island descends further into chaos. Rival gangs have joined forces to overrun the country’s capital ...