The target of the gangs’ attack appears to have been the prison, which housed 516 inmates, according to the Port-au-Prince based human rights group Fondasyon Je Klere/Eyes Wide Open Foundation.

According to the United Nations, nearly 1.3 million people in Haiti are currently displaced. Haiti has been in a political tailspin since the 2021 assassination of its president, Jovenel Moise.

The violence has overwhelmed Haiti’s National Police and a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police that is struggling in its fight against gangs as it remains underfunded and under-resourced.

U.S. deportees bound for Haiti Compounding the situation: On Tuesday, dozens of U.S. deportees from the United States were en route to Haiti aboard a flight that left Miami shortly after 11 a.m.

The violence has overwhelmed Haiti’s National Police and a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police that is struggling in its fight against gangs as it remains underfunded and under-resourced.

For months, Haiti’s criminal gangs have been pushing the country’s capital further into chaos, forcing the shutdown of public offices and schools and sending tens of thousands of people under ...

Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Heavily armed gangs struck the city of Mirebalais in central Haiti on Monday, seizing control of a local prison as hundreds of people fled the area under gunfire.

The violence has overwhelmed Haiti’s National Police and a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police that is struggling in its fight against gangs as it remains underfunded and under-resourced.