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Around December 11, for instance, the UN noted that the gangs killed more than 70 people near the town of Petite-Riviere de l’Artibonite, and vigilante groups killed 67 people, many of them assumed to ...
Almost 5,000 people have been killed in Haiti since October 2024, displacing hundreds of thousands as gang violence has ...
In just over a decade, enslaved Haitians turned the richest colony in the French empire into the first Black republic through revolution, resistance, and relentless warfare. This video unpacks how ...
Bernard Georges, founder of New Bridges for Haitian Success, said ending temporary protected status will send Haitian ...
Amid pressure from Washington to resolve the crisis in Haiti, the new head of the Western Hemisphere’s top multilateral organization pledged to work with the United Nations and international donors to ...
When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a United Nations-backed mission earlier this year to tackle gang violence, hopes were high.
World leaders gathering in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly have an opportunity to give Haiti the attention it deserves through concrete financial, technical, and ...
In a WLRN interview, Transitional Presidential Council member Leslie Voltaire says he's confident Haiti will escape gang rule — and sees a big role for the diaspora.
Haiti’s beleaguered police force, which to many people’s surprise has managed to battle back successfully against a months-long insurgency by armed groups, received much needed reinforcements ...
Human remains lie in the streets of the Haitian capital, yet a multinational security mission long touted by the country’s neighbors as a gamechanger for its gang problem is nowhere to be found.
Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier: The former cop-turned-gang leader bringing Haiti to its knees US embassy says it is halting all official travel to the country and urges American citizens to leave ...
Here’s a timeline of key events in Haiti’s modern political history, leading up to the ongoing crisis.