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By Harold Isaac PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Armed men belonging to the Gran Grif gang killed at least 70 people, including three infants, as they swept through a Haitian town shooting automatic rifles at residents, a spokesperson for the United Nations’ Human Rights Office said on Friday. “We are horrified by Thursday’s gang attacks in the town of Pont-Sonde in Haiti’s Artibonite department,” spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said in a statement. At least another 16 people were seriously […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Land access to a vital supply port in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince is being closed off after attacks by armed gangs, operator Caribbean Port Services (CPS) said on Thursday. “CPS will shut its barriers to all types of land-based traffic from Sept. 26 to Sept. 29,” it said in a statement, saying that the suspension should allow the army and national police to secure the area. A shipping official told Reuters this […]
By Jean Daniel Senat with Hillary Orinde in Nairobi and Shaun Tandon in Washington PORT-AU-PRINCE, June 25, 2024 (AFP) – Kenyan police arrived in violence-ravaged Haiti on Tuesday on a long-awaited mission to help wrest the Caribbean nation from powerful gangs, just as Nairobi saw its own deadly turmoil during mass protests. Wearing camouflage uniforms, helmets and rifles, about 200 officers descended from a Kenya Airways plane on the tarmac in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. […]
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2024 (AFP) – A US couple was among three missionaries shot and killed by a gang outside a church in the Haitian capital, which has endured months of extreme violence with deadly assaults on hospitals, prisons and government buildings. Missions in Haiti, an Oklahoma-based nonprofit founded in 2000, said Davy and Natalie Lloyd and a third person were killed in Port-au-Prince by armed men on Thursday evening. The third victim was identified […]
A jailbreak at a prison in northern Haiti led to a lockdown on the streets of the coastal city of Port-de-Paix, as authorities tried to recapture escapees with a pair still at large, police said Saturday. Six fugitives had been apprehended since the Friday night escape. Four others were shot dead. Gang violence beginning at the end of February — plunging impoverished and politically unstable Haiti deeper into chaos — has led to more than […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States, March 22, 2024 (AFP) – Haiti’s gangs have made advances in Port-au-Prince, a UN official reported Thursday, with political parties inching toward forming a transition government and new bloodshed roiling the troubled Caribbean nation. Police in Port-au-Prince confirmed that a major gang leader, Ernst Julme, known as Ti Greg, was slain in a clash with security forces. Julme led the Delmas 95 gang. Addressing a news conference from Haiti via videolink, […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 18, 2024 (AFP) – Fourteen bodies were found in an affluent suburb of Haiti’s capital Monday, as international efforts accelerated to fill a political vacuum created by weeks of gang violence that has forced the impending departure of the prime minister. Local residents told AFP they did not know the circumstances of the deaths but said that the Laboule and Thomassin neighborhoods, in the suburb of Petion-Ville, had been under attack by what […]
By Jean Daniel SENAT with Ines BEL AIBA in Washington PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 14, 2024 (AFP) – Gunfire rang out Thursday in Haiti’s capital and “bandits” set a police official’s house ablaze, ending three days of relative calm as politicians pressed on with talks to form an interim governing body. The country has been convulsed for two weeks by a gang uprising, with the well-armed groups saying they wanted to topple Prime Minister Ariel Henry, an […]
By Shaun TANDON KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 12, 2024 (AFP) – Haiti’s prime minister agreed late Monday to step aside as armed gangs plunge his country into anarchy, as he accepted a regional push for a transition that sets the stage for international intervention. Caribbean nations secured Ariel Henry’s resignation at an emergency meeting in Jamaica where US Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered another $100 million to pave the way for the security force, […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 11, 2024 (AFP) – The European Union has evacuated all its diplomatic personnel from Haiti because of “the dramatic deterioration of the security situation” there with armed gangs taking control of much of its capital, a spokesman said Monday. “Currently we have removed and evacuated all the EU staff from Haiti,” said European Commission spokesman Peter Stano. The European Union is “extremely concerned” about developments in Haiti over recent days, he added. […]
By Aziz EL MASSASSI WASHINGTON, March 11, 2024 (AFP) – The latest violence in Haiti underscores the powerful sway of armed gangs, which have profited from collusion with the authorities, institutional negligence and political chaos since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021. The gangs sowing terror in the impoverished Caribbean island have morphed into de facto overlords. Now they are demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, whose successor would have been […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 10, 2024 (AFP) – With Haiti’s capital spiraling deeper into gang violence, members of several diplomatic missions, including staff from the United States and the German ambassador, began leaving Port-au-Prince Sunday. Beleaguered residents were scrambling for safety following the latest spasm of unrest, with a UN group warning of a “city under siege” after armed attackers targeted the presidential palace and police headquarters. Criminal groups, which already control much of Port-au-Prince as well […]
