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Haiti police vow to ramp up fight against gangs after fresh attacks

More than 1 million people have been displaced by the violence, with gangs in control 85% of Port-au-Prince, according to a UN human rights expert.

13/03/2025

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Children in Haiti subjected to brutal gang violence, report says

At least 5,600 people were killed in Haiti in 2024, an increase of more than 1,000 from the previous year. Another 2,212 people were injured and 1,494 kidnapped.

12/02/2025

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US deported Haitian migrants under Trump's new executive orders

In the first week of the US president's second term, officials reported the deportation of some 7,300 people of different nationalities.

05/02/2025

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Haiti gang violence has displaced more than 1 million people, UN says

Children make up at least half of Haiti’s displaced population, which has tripled within a year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.

14/01/2025

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No comment: Bodies lie on the street after upscale Haiti neighborhood targeted in gang attacks

Gangs launched a fresh attack on Haiti’s capital early on Tuesday, targeting an upscale community in Port-au-Prince where gunmen clashed with residents who fought side by side with police.

20/11/2024

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Firefights break out in Haiti's capital as prime minister replaced

Gun fights broke out between police and gangs in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Monday, the same day a new interim prime minister was expected to take over as the country faces a surge of violence.

12/11/2024

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Haiti Massacre displaces thousands as gang violence escalates

In central Haiti, a gang attack in the town of Pont-Sondé left at least 70 people dead and displaced nearly 6,300 residents.

07/10/2024

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Heavy gunfire near Haiti’s presidential palace alarms residents

Haitians looking to buy supplies in what used to be a busy market in Port-au-Prince fled in fear on Thursday as gangs clashed with police in front of the presidential palace.

05/04/2024

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Gang and police gunbattles paralyse area near Haiti's National Palace

At least one policeman was shot after he and other officers were forced to flee an armoured car that was later set on fire, according to local media reports.

02/04/2024

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Haiti PM says he'll resign once transitional government is installed

The spectacular collapse of law and order in the Caribbean country follows years of natural disaster, conflict and poor governance.

12/03/2024

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Haiti extends state of emergency and nighttime curfew

Haiti's government announced on Thursday it was extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew, in an attempt to curb the gang violence and protests plaguing the country.

08/03/2024

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Haitian politicians seek new alliances as country remains paralysed

Politicians in Haiti are attempting to form a coalition government to lift the country out of widespread gang violence

07/03/2024

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Haiti gangs demand PM resignation after latest airport attack

Gangs in Haiti attempted to seize control of country's main airport on Monday, after mass escapes from two major prisons over the weekend.

05/03/2024

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Six nuns kidnapped by armed group in Haiti released unharmed

The women were taken by an armed group last week along with two other people, and were released Wednesday, said the archbishop of Port-au-Prince.

25/01/2024

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Pope Francis pleads for the release of the six nuns kidnapped in Haiti

Speaking on Sunday from the window of the Apostolic Palace, he prayed for the release of the group of people, including six nuns, who were kidnapped in Haiti last week.

21/01/2024

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Maui emergency management director resigns citing health reasons

Herman Andaya has faced fierce criticism for failing to activate disaster sirens during last week’s wildfire response. He says the sirens would have caused further panic and driven residents towards the fire.

18/08/2023

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WATCH: Vendors despair as fire rages through Haiti market

Authorities have yet to reveal the cause of the fire but no injuries were recorded.at the market in Port-au-Prince.

13/06/2023

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Four dead and dozens injured after 4.9 magnitude quake hits Haiti

A deadly earthquake in Haiti killed at least four people on Tuesday, just days after flooding killed at least 51 people in the country,

07/06/2023

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UN split over sending an international force to crisis-hit Haiti

Mexico and the US have proposed the idea, but Russia and China have expressed reservations.

18/10/2022

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Protests in Haiti over PM's call for international armed forces

Haiti has called for international armed forces as gangs and protesters paralyse the country amid fuel and water shortages.

11/10/2022

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Thousands demand ouster of Haiti PM in new protest

Thousands of people in Haiti's capital and other major cities organized new protests on Wednesday to demand safer streets.

08/09/2022

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US Coast Guard intercepts vessel carrying migrants from Haiti

The US Coast Guard (USCG) said on May, 3, that it had intercepted a boat carrying 78 migrants from Haiti some 33 miles off the coast of Tortuga, Haiti.

04/05/2022

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Dozens killed in petrol truck explosion in northern Haiti

“Three days of national mourning will be decreed throughout the territory, in memory of the victims of this tragedy that the entire Haitian nation is grieving.”

14/12/2021

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US religious group says 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti

A group of 17 U.S. missionaries including children was kidnapped by a gang in Haiti, a religious group said.

17/10/2021

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Haitian migrants cross Colombian jungle en route to US

Hundreds of Haitian migrants cross the Darien Gap jungle in Colombia to reach Panama on their way to a better life in the United States.

28/09/2021

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Haiti prosecutor seeks to charge PM in killing, is replaced

It wasn't clear if the prosecutor's removal would have any impact on the case, or if he was officially removed before he made the request to the judge to charge the prime minister.

15/09/2021