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 […]
Haiti gangs are recruiting more child soldiers, human rights report says
Reuters Haiti’s armed gangs are increasingly recruiting children into their ranks, a report by Human Rights Watch warned on Wednesday, as near-famine conditions push boys to pick up guns while girls are sexually abused and forced into domestic work. The group, which advocates for human rights globally, said it had spoken to six children recently […]
Haiti’s divided transition council picks new president
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Haiti’s transitional presidential council transferred the rotating presidency on Monday to architect Leslie Voltaire despite opposition from outgoing president Edgard Leblanc Fils, who refused to sign a decree ratifying the move. Leblanc Fils had opposed the move citing unresolved corruption accusations against three other councillors who remain voting members and signed off […]
Haitian Prime Minister goes abroad for support after gang massacre
Saint-Marc, Haiti Reuters Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille embarked on a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya on Saturday to seek security assistance in the aftermath of one of deadliest gang attacks in the Caribbean nation in recent years. Haiti is reeling after members of the Gran Grif gang stormed through the town […]
Haitian gang kills at least 70 people as thousands flee, UN says
Updated: 8:45am, 6th October, 2024 (AEDT) Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Gang members brandishing automatic rifles stormed through a town in Haiti’s main breadbasket region, killing at least 70 and forcing over 6,000 to flee, causing widespread shock even in a country grown accustomed to outbreaks of violence. More people were severely injured in the attack in […]
Thousands flee gang killings in Haiti breadbasket town, media reports
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured in an overnight attack in a Haitian town led by the Gran Grif gang, local newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported on Thursday, as powerful armed gangs expand their influence from the capital. Thousands of residents left the town of Pont-Sonde, some 100 kilometres north […]
Haiti conflict drives thousands toward famine
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters A gang-fuelled social and political crisis in Haiti has swollen the ranks of those suffering severe hunger in recent months, with an estimated 5.4 million Haitians having run out of food and gone a day or more without eating. Of those, at least 6,000 residents of the Caribbean island nation now suffer […]
US changes tack on Haiti peacekeeping push amid China, Russia opposition
United Nations Reuters The United States has dropped a push for the UN Security Council to ask for a plan to transform a security mission helping fight armed gangs in Haiti into a formal UN peacekeeping operation, a move some diplomats said was made to appease Russia and China. A senior US administration official, however, […]