Haiti gangs launch deadly attack on capital’s Delmas neighbourhood
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Armed gangs launched a fresh attack on Haiti’s capital before dawn on Tuesday, killing residents in the Delmas 30 neighbourhood and causing more residents to flee as gangs continue to operate unchecked in the Caribbean nation. More than a million Haitians – close to 10 per cent of the Caribbean’s most populous […]
Children’s bodies a ‘battleground’ in Haiti as sexual violence surges, UNICEF warns
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Sexual violence against children in Haiti has surged in the last year and their bodies have been turned into “battlegrounds”, UNICEF warned. Describing the increase between 2023-2024 as “staggering,” the spokesperson for the United Nations agency for children, James Elder, told reporters at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Friday that […]
Central American troops arrive in Haiti to fight gangs
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters A contingent of security forces from Guatemala and El Salvador arrived in Haiti’s capital on Friday to reinforce a long-delayed United Nations-backed mission tasked with restoring security amid a bloody conflict with armed gangs. The new arrivals were made up of 75 Guatemalans and eight Salvadorans, a communications officer for the mission […]
Over 200 killed in Haiti’s Cite Soleil massacre, UN report finds
Reuters At least 207 people were killed by members of the Wharf Jeremie gang in Haiti’s portside neighbourhood of Cite Soleil earlier this month, the United Nations said in a report on Monday, revising up a death toll it initially estimated at 187. In a new report on the massacre, the UN Office of the […]
Armed men attack Haiti hospital as violence shows no signs of abating
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Armed men attacked and partially destroyed a hospital in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, a hospital director told Reuters on Tuesday, amid a wave of escalating violence that prompted Doctors Without Borders to suspend operations in Haiti last month. The bandits set the Bernard Mevs hospital on fire on Monday night, destroying four operating […]
Haiti gang massacres around 180 people, targeting elderly
Reuters Around 180 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti’s Cite Soleil area, Haiti’s Prime Minister’s office said on Monday, after attacks that an NGO said were ordered by a gang leader who suspected his child had been made ill using witchcraft. “A red line has been crossed,” the office said in a statement, […]
Haiti gang massacres at least 110 people in Cite Soleil, rights group says
Mexico City Reuters At least 110 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti’s Cite Soleil slum when a gang leader targeted elderly people he suspected of causing his child’s illness through witchcraft, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) said on Sunday. All the victims were aged over 60, the rights group said. Wharf […]
UN evacuates staff from Haiti as gangs deepen control over capital
Panama City, Panama/Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters United Nations evacuation flights are set to land in Panama City this week as the international organisation removes staff from Haiti due to a sharp escalation in violence by armed gangs that have expanded their control over the capital Port-au-Prince. Panama’s foreign ministry said two humanitarian flights would arrive from […]
Doctors Without Borders halts operations in Haiti’s capital as more than two dozen killed on attack on suburb
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Tuesday that it is stopping operations across the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and its wider metropolitan area due to an escalation in violence and threats to its staff from members of the Haitian police. The suspension would last from Wednesday “until further notice”, said MSF. A general […]
Haiti gangs push into one of few remaining capital strongholds
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Residents of Solino and Nazon, central neighbourhoods in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, fled their homes on Thursday as gangs spread to one of the few remaining areas of town not already under their control. A coalition of gangs known as Viv Ansanm has been cementing their hold over the country while the political […]