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 […]
New leader takes helm in Haiti pledging to stem spiralling violence
Port-au-Prince Reuters Haitian Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime took office on Monday as the nation’s new interim leader pledging to improve security even as armed gangs flexed their muscles with a brazen attack on a commercial plane attempting to land in the capital. Fils-Aime was appointed by the Caribbean island nation’s transitional council over the […]
Essay: Haiti’s gangs turn to starving children to bolster their ranks
AMALENDU MISRA looks, in an article first published on The Conversation, at reports Haiti’s armed gangs are enlisting hundreds of children…
Residents in Haiti’s capital flee homes as gangs expand control
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters A gang attack in Port-au-Prince forced residents to flee their homes on Saturday as the gangs operating in and around the Haitian capital ramp up attacks on areas they do not yet control. Smoke from gunfights billowed above the capital’s Solino neighbourhood, where fleeing residents strapped mattresses, furniture, cooking supplies and other […]
UN says Haiti conflict has ‘worsened’ as gangs push fresh attacks
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Haitian gangs are ramping up attacks on areas they do not yet control, the head of the United Nation’s Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) warned on Tuesday, after days of renewed violence from an alliance of armed gangs in the Caribbean nation. “The situation in Haiti has regrettably worsened,” Maria Isabel Salvador […]
Haitian gangs press fresh attacks as families mourn massacre
Sant-Marc, Haiti Reuters Armed men launched fresh attacks on the Haitian town of Arcahaie, local media reported on Wednesday, as families mourned the growing list of victims of a massacre days earlier in an agricultural town some 60 kilometres to the north. An armoured vehicle is driven out of a police station following the 3rd […]