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PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 5, 2024 (AFP) – The police academy in Haiti’s capital came under attack by an armed gang Tuesday as the tiny Caribbean nation fell into deeper international isolation in the wake of an assault on the airport and a deadly prison breakout. The latest violence followed the evacuation of thousands of residents from the capital Port-au-Prince, with the United Nations and Washington reiterating their concerns over the crisis as armed groups announced a […]
WASHINGTON, March 2, 2024 (AFP) – Gangs aiming to oust Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry wreaked havoc in the capital Port-au-Prince Friday, as gun attacks near the city’s international airport and a prison marked a second day of extreme violence. At least four police officers were killed Thursday and dozens have been wounded since the latest spate of brutality began, with Henry meanwhile in Kenya mustering support for a UN-backed international police deployment. Armed gangs […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 8, 2024 (AFP) – Five agents of an environmental protection body were killed in clashes with police near the Haitian capital Wednesday, as the country is seized by violent protests calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Haiti has been engulfed in unrest since Monday, with thousands of people in Port-au-Prince and across the country demanding that Henry step down in line with a political agreement forged in 2022. A police […]
MIAMI, Dec 22, 2023 (AFP) – A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty Friday in a US federal court to conspiracy to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was shot dead in 2021 in Port-au-Prince. Mario Antonio Palacios, 45, pleaded guilty in a Miami federal court after entering into a cooperation agreement with prosecutors. Until agreeing to a plea deal, he had for months denied having had any role in the assassination of the former president. […]
The main hospital in Port-au-Prince’s largest shantytown was completely evacuated on Wednesday after violent gang clashes broke out at its gates, its director told AFP. Jose Ulysse, founder and director of the Fontaine Hospital Center, denied reports that gang members had entered the facility and taken patients hostage. “There was no hostage-taking. There was a gang war, but the war is around the hospital. We’ve had neighboring houses burnt down,” he said in a telephone […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Oct 1, 2023 (AFP) – The UN Security Council will decide on Monday whether to endorse an international force to back Haiti’s police as they battle entrenched criminal gangs, according to a published agenda. For the past year, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have called for such a force to address the country’s spiraling security crisis. But given the challenges faced by past peacekeeping efforts in […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Sept 19, 2023 (AFP) – US President Joe Biden urged the United Nations on Tuesday to authorize a multinational “security support mission” led by Kenya to deal with gangs in strife-torn Haiti. “I call on the Security Council to authorize this mission now. The people of Haiti cannot wait much longer,” Biden told the UN General Assembly in New York. Haitian authorities and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have been pleading for […]
WASHINGTON, July 29, 2023 (AFP) – An American nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, a Christian aid group said Saturday, days after the US government ordered its nonessential personnel out of the impoverished Caribbean country due to spiraling insecurity. Alix Dorsainvil and her child were kidnapped Thursday morning near Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, El Roi Haiti said in a statement on its website. She is the wife of the group’s director, who is […]
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2023 (AFP) – The United States has ordered its nonessential personnel and family of government employees to leave Haiti as the Caribbean nation faces spiraling insecurity, the State Department said. Issuing an updated travel advisory Thursday evening, the State Department also reiterated its warning that Americans should not travel to Haiti. “US citizens in Haiti should depart Haiti as soon as possible by commercial or other privately available transportation options, in light […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — At least 42 people were dead and 11 missing in Haiti afer heavy rains at the weekend triggered flooding and landslides, civil protection oficials said Monday. The bad weather hit seven of the 10 departments in the country which is already plunged into a protracted humanitarian crisis fueled by gang violence, political collapse and economic stagnation. According to the UN, the severe rains afected 37,000 people and displaced 13,400. The town […]
ROME, May 29, 2023 (AFP) – Haiti, the Sahel and Sudan now rank among the UN’s highest alert areas for food insecurity, requiring “urgent” action from the international community, food agencies warned Monday. The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) said Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen remain at the highest alert level. And now Haiti, the Sahel — Burkina Faso and Mali — and the Sudan join them, […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — More than a dozen suspected gang members were stoned and burned alive on Monday by residents in Port-au-Prince, police and witnesses said, as the UN warned that insecurity in the Haitian capital has reached levels similar to countries at war. “During a search of a minibus in which there were armed individuals, the police confiscated weapons and other equipment. In addition, more than a dozen individuals traveling in this […]
