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Two US planes struck by gunfire over Haiti's capital
Two jets from US-based airlines were struck by bullets on Monday while flying over Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince as Haitian authorities suspended all flights in and out of the capital amid escalating gang violence. A Spirit Airlines plane was hit (...)

12 - 11 - 2024
Haiti's prime minister ousted after six months
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has been fired by the country's ruling council less than six months after he took office. An executive order, signed by eight of the council's nine members, named businessman and former Haiti Senate candidate (...)

11 - 11 - 2024
Haiti gang attack leaves at least 20 dead
At least 20 people including children have been killed after an armed gang attacked a small town in Haiti. Another 50 were wounded as Gran Grif gang members rampaged through Pont-Sondé in the central Artibonite region about 71km (44 miles) northwest (...)

04 - 10 - 2024
Haiti's transitional council picks prime minister
Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council has tapped former Prime Minister Garry Conille to return to the position during the government's transition period, council president Edgard Leblanc Fils said Tuesday. Conille was chosen by consensus after (...)

29 - 05 - 2024
Haiti's PM Ariel Henry resigns as transitional council is sworn in
Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned on Thursday as a new council was sworn in to lead the country gripped by deadly gang violence. A recent outbreak of violence forced officials to move the ceremony from the capital's National Palace to the (...)

25 - 04 - 2024
Sexual violence 'largely unpunished' in Haiti, UN says
The UN human rights office described sexual violence in Haiti as "severely underreported and largely unpunished" in a harrowing report released Thursday that documented cases of rape and forced sexual relations with gang members, as well surging (...)

29 - 03 - 2024
US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fueling surge in violence
Haiti is a state out of action. More than two weeks after the country's prime minister resigned, following a surge of violence in Port-au-Prince, details of a presidential transitional council have still not been revealed. One of the challenges this (...)

27 - 03 - 2024
Machete-wielding militias battle gangs in Port-au-Prince as Haiti's elites vie for power
The wide road that passes in front of Haiti's Toussaint Louverture International Airport has a post-apocalyptic stillness these days. Where cars and crowds of people once massed, only tendrils of smoke rise from smoldering piles of trash, sending a (...)

18 - 03 - 2024
Dozens of US citizens evacuate Haiti on first State Department charter flight
Dozens of US citizens have been evacuated from Haiti on a State Department charter flight as the country is paralyzed by escalating gang violence and political instability that has left once bustling streets vacant and necessities like food and gas (...)

18 - 03 - 2024
UN maternity aid looted in Port-au-Prince as Haiti crisis deepens
A container carrying essential items for newborn babies and their mothers – including resuscitators and other critical supplies – was looted in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, aid agency UNICEF said in a statement, as gang violence and a humanitarian (...)

17 - 03 - 2024
Haiti PM Ariel Henry resigns as law and order collapses
Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to resign following weeks of mounting pressure and increasing violence in the country. It comes after regional leaders met in Jamaica on Monday to discuss a political transition in Haiti. Henry is (...)

12 - 03 - 2024
Haiti spirals to collapse as gangs tighten grip
Over the weekend, the violence in the capital Port-au-Prince ramped up once again. Heavily armed gangs attacked the National Palace and set part of the Interior Ministry on fire with petrol bombs. It comes after a sustained attack on the (...)

11 - 03 - 2024
Haiti gang leader threatens 'civil war' if PM does not resign
The gang leader behind the violence blighting the Haitian capital has warned there will be a "civil war" if Haiti's prime minister, Ariel Henry, does not step down. Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier made the threat as members of his gang tried to seize the (...)

06 - 03 - 2024
Gangs rule Haiti's capital
From above, Haiti's capital city Port-au-Prince still looks serene, its white-washed homes climbing steep green hills that encircle a glittering bay. But to step onto its cracked streets requires a careful calculation of risk and reward. Ruthless (...)

05 - 03 - 2024
Haiti declares state of emergency after mass prison escape
Haiti's government declared a state of emergency on Sunday after thousands of inmates apparently escaped from its largest prison during a surge of gang violence that has upended the Caribbean nation for months. The government cited the (...)

04 - 03 - 2024
Hundreds of prisoners escape Port-au-Prince prison as violence escalates in Haitian capital
Hundreds of prisoners have escaped from Haiti's National Penitentiary in the capital, Port-au-Prince, after fighting broke out on Saturday, according to a law enforcement source. In a post on X, one of Haiti's Police Unions pleaded for all officers (...)

03 - 03 - 2024
$21 million appeal to help thousands displaced by gang violence in Haiti
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the government of Haiti are appealing for $21 million to ensure better protection and shelter conditions for tens of thousands of newly displaced people in the country's capital, (...)

10 - 10 - 2023
Haiti violence: 'Carnage needs to stop' says UN relief chief
Haiti is in the grip of "extreme brutality", with gang-related violence continuing to force thousands from their homes amidst widespread suffering, said the UN's top humanitarian official there. The desperate situation prompted a tweet on Friday (...)

02 - 09 - 2023
At least 42 dead and thousands displaced in Haiti after flooding
Thousands of homes in Haiti have been flooded following heavy rains over the weekend, leaving at least 42 people dead and 85 injured, according to a statement released by the country's Civil Protection Agency on Monday. The intense rainfall caused (...)

06 - 06 - 2023
'Catastrophic' hunger recorded in Haiti for first time, UN warns
An unrelenting series of crises has trapped vulnerable Haitians in a cycle of growing desperation, without access to food, fuel, markets, jobs and public services, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Program (...)

15 - 10 - 2022
Haiti asks world for military help to curb chaos
Haiti has asked for foreign military support to curb its gang violence crisis, which has paralyzed the country. The Haitian government authorized Prime Minister Ariel Henry to request armed help due to "the risk of a major humanitarian crisis". The (...)

08 - 10 - 2022
Haiti in a humanitarian catastrophe, says UN envoy
A chronic gang, economic and political crisis has led to a humanitarian catastrophe in Haiti, the country's UN envoy has said. Weeks of violence and attacks on food aid warehouses have rocked the nation's food security, Helen La Lime told an (...)

27 - 09 - 2022
First Person: Taking to the sea to deliver aid in Haiti
With Haiti's highways increasingly in the grip of gangs, aid delivery by ship is becoming increasingly critical. Captain Madeleine Habib, a shipping officer working for the World Food Program in Haiti, spoke about her experiences ahead of World (...)

19 - 08 - 2022
Building a more resilient post-earthquake future in Haiti
One year on from a devastating earthquake which struck Haiti, communities are rebuilding their lives, and aiming to be better prepared when future disasters strike. A line of women carry rocks in the hands and on their heads as they descend to a (...)

15 - 08 - 2022
UN delivers aid directly to Haitians caught up in gang violence
United Nations humanitarian agencies have started delivering aid directly to people in Haiti following a recent spike in violence between rival gangs which has fueled a worsening crisis across the capital, Port-au-Prince. Vulnerable inhabitants of (...)

26 - 07 - 2022
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