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Gang violence rocks Haiti's capital ahead of political handoff
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Gang violence flared in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday and a top gang leader threatened the country's precarious government as it prepared to hand over its ...
Haiti ushers in last phase of transitional government amid color, class tensions
The latest transition of power in Haiti is highlighting long-standing fault lines between the country’s Black majority and the mostly mixed-race business class and threatens to inflame unresolved ...
Sexual violence surges in Haiti as gangs use rape to control population
Reports of sexual violence almost doubled in Haiti over the past three months, with gangs vying for territory using rape to ...
Haitian police arrest a former senator accused of working with gangs to attack a peaceful community
Nenel Cassy, considered a corrupt actor by the U.S. State Department, was accused by Haiti's police of backing gang members ...
An American Team Went to Fight Haiti’s Gangs. Its Mission Ended Badly.
A Haitian American Navy veteran and his police officer cousin who were working in Haiti with Studebaker, an American military ...
Former Haitian Senator Arrested For Allegedly Working With Gangs To Attack Wealthy Area
Police in Haiti have arrested Nenel Cassy, a former Senator accused of conspiring against the state by financing criminal ...
Dispute over a major port contract threatens Haiti’s fragile political stability
The leader of Haiti’s transitional presidential council claims a communications employee was threatened to publish a press ...
Eight people including an Irish missionary are missing after gunmen storm a Haiti orphanage
Eight people including an Irish missionary and a 3-year-old child remained missing Monday after gunmen stormed an orphanage ...
He fled Haiti and became integral to a conservative community. Now they’re fighting his deportation.
Students, churchgoers and community members across a Republican county are dreading — and fighting — the deportation of a ...
Haiti gangs’ expansion, human-rights violations, threaten whole Caribbean, UN warns
If the government doesn’t put its head together to push back the gangs, they will head toward Belladère and then we will be at war because the Dominicans will never accept this.” ...
Inside gang violence raging through Haiti & how brutality intensifying further as Irish woman kidnapped from orphanage
GANG violence has raged through Haiti for decades but it has intensified with increasing brutality in the last few years. The ...