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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
A young man whose community has been at the epicentre of the violence that has been raging between rival gangs in the troubled neighborhood of Cité Soleil in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, says that he goes to sleep and wakes in the morning to (...)
Rising gang crime in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince is limiting access to education and is preventing thousands of children from going to school. Since 2020, gang-related violence has led to school closures, and children have become easy prey for (...)