Tag: gangs
concern is mounting among the displaced, more and more numerous due to gangs
The Haitian capital Port-au-Prince remains under siege: even if clashes between gangs in the northern suburbs ceased for a few hours Thursday, May 5, the security situation remains very precarious.…
in Marseille, clashes between Nigerian gangs scare the inhabitants of a district
In Marseille this weekend of May 1, violence in the Kallisté city forced around thirty frightened inhabitants to leave the district temporarily. Clashes between several Nigerian groups have degenerated in…
the Salvadoran president attacks the United States and a specialist in armed gangs
Nayib Bukele has treated as “junk” on Twitter an anthropologist working on armed gangs. Criminal gangs still front and center after a wave of killings last month: 9,000 suspected members…
president threatens to make inmates ‘pay’ if gangs don’t stop violence
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele threatened on Monday (March 28) to attack some 16,000 imprisoned gang members if they did not stop their killings. The Parliament of the Central American…
62 homicides in a single day, gangs singled out
Police have announced that they have recorded 62 homicides in El Salvador on Saturday March 26 alone, attributed to gangs. The country’s parliament is considering declaring a state of emergency…