Now, the people are taking action and a wave of brutal vigilante justice is roiling Haiti, concentrated in this capital of ...
The sacred spaces are no longer important.” As gangs maraud through Haiti’s cities mostly unchecked, they are now targeting groups that had once been spared such violence — a sign of how the new ...
and sexual violence, often at random. The current gang structure arguably began under the auspices of former leader Jean-Bertrande Aristide, Daniel Foote, the former US special envoy to Haiti who ...
Smoke rises between houses in the Debussy neighbourhood during clashes between gangs, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti April 24, 2023. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol PORT-AU-PRINCE, May 28 (Reuters ...
Widespread gang violence has plagued Haiti for nearly two years, as armed groups vie for control after the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, which created a power vacuum.
Haiti's Communications Ministry said Friday ... force that Haiti's prime minister requested in October to quell gang violence. But no one has shown any interest in leading such a force.
A human rights group in Haiti says violence by armed gangs has declined significantly following the emergence of a vigilante ...
More than 600 people were killed last month in violence in the capital of Haiti, which is in the grip of a political-economic crisis, the United Nations said on Monday. "In the month of April ...
People displaced by gang violence from the area of Cite Soleil stand at a makeshift shelter in the Delmas neighborhood in ...
Haiti has been gripped by a political and economic crisis since the assassination in July 2021 of president Jovenel Moise - Copyright AFP Jameson WU Haiti has been ...
Haiti's Deadly Vigilante Movement Sees Decline in Gang Violence - Report PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Violence by armed gangs has fallen "drastically" since the emergence of a vigilante justice ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Violence by armed gangs ... "Both kidnappings and gang-related killings have fallen drastically." Port-au-Prince, which CARDH estimates is now 60% controlled by armed gangs, ...
