Tag: Haiti
Kenya sends more police to Haiti to fight armed gangs | News in brief
More than 200 more police officers from Kenya have been sent to Haiti to support multinational forces in the fight against armed gangs. The matter was reported yesterday by the…
more than 5,600 deaths attributed to gang violence in 2024, according to the UN
The UN took stock of gang violence in Haiti last year. Result: more than 5,600 deaths in what will remain one of the deadliest years in the country plagued by…
Multinational forces fighting armed gangs in Haiti received reinforcements from Central America | News in brief
Multinational forces have not succeeded in stabilizing the situation in Haiti. Instead, the violence caused by gangs accelerated at the end of last year. Security forces from Guatemala and El…
In Haiti, two journalists and a policeman were killed in an attack on the opening of a hospital | News in brief
According to preliminary information, the gang started shooting at the hospital, which was about to be reopened. At least two journalists were killed on Christmas Eve in an attack on…
at least two journalists killed by gangs during the reopening of a hospital in Port-au-Prince
A shooting provoked by gangs occurred Tuesday, December 24 during the reopening ceremony of the main hospital in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, killing two journalists and a police officer, also…
In Haiti, the renewal of the state of emergency arouses hope and pessimism among citizens
The Haitian government has once again decided to renew the state of security emergency throughout the national territory for a period of one month, from December 22, 2024 to January…
a lieutenant of the “Barbecue” gang leader shot dead by police in Port-au-Prince
Kendy, alias “Jeff Mafia”, was shot dead this Sunday, December 15 during a clash with the police at the bottom of Delmas in Port-au-Prince. The information was confirmed by Lionel…
a witness recounts the killing perpetrated at Wharf Jeremie, the victims’ relatives in distress
The Cité Soleil massacre continues to plunge the population of this commune into an endless nightmare. A witness describes seeing the collective killing orchestrated by gang leader Micanor and which…
at least 184 dead this weekend in violence orchestrated by a gang leader, according to the UN
A new massacre took place in Haiti, the second in the space of two months after that of Pont-Sondé. This time, it is the Cité Soleil district, on the outskirts…
Over a hundred people were killed over the weekend in Haiti because the gang boss’s child fell ill | News in brief
The voodoo priest told the gang boss that the old people living in the capital’s slum area had caused this child to fall ill with witchcraft. In Haiti, which is…