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Jimmy Chérizier, ex-police officer known by nickname ‘Barbecue’, also urges Haitians to mobilize against governmentHaiti crisis: how did it get so bad and is there a way out?Haiti’s most powerful gang leader has warned that he and his gunmen would figh…
Human Rights Watch says country unable to protect citizens from killing and rape by armed gangs, and floats overseas peacekeepersHuman rights abuses in Haiti are soaring while the Haitian state is almost nonexistent and unable to protect its people fro…
Armed men had seized Alix Dorsainvil and daughter from clinic in a gang-controlled area of Port-au-Prince, where she worksAn American woman and her daughter who were kidnapped in Haiti have been freed, nearly two weeks after their abduction in the capi…
Groups say move could worsen country’s security crisis given police force’s poor human rights recordAn offer from Kenya to dispatch police officers to Haiti has been welcomed by officials in the embattled Caribbean nation – but prompted concern among h…
Kenya has offered to lead a police force to help restore order to Haiti, where gangs that control vast parts of the country’s capital have fomented violence.
This, along with other recent kidnappings, may signal the end of a brief respite, as gangs tighten their grip after being targets of vigilante violence.
Alix Dorsainvil of New Hampshire was working for Christian organization El Roi Haiti near capital Port-au-PrinceAn American woman and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, according to a non-profit humanitarian organization affiliated with the woman….
The U.S. State Department issued a “do not travel advisory” in the country.
The World Food Programme’s Haiti response is only 16% funded with more than half of the country’s population regularly hungryThe World Food Programme (WFP) will be unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month as the UN agency has insufficient funding to …
The gangs have grown in power since the July 7, 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and are now estimated to control up to 80 per cent of the capital.