Haitian gangs continue making advances ... including the storming of Haiti's two largest prisons last year, where some 4,000 inmates were freed. Local officials had requested reinforcements ...

Provisional authorities in violence-torn Haiti are stepping up their efforts to garner international help in their fight against local gangs. During the weekend, visiting Port-au-Prince was Kenyan ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP ... region that gangs have targeted. In late March, gangs struck the city of Mirebalais and stormed a local prison, freeing more than 500 inmates.

(AP pic) PORT-AU-PRINCE: A top hospital in Haiti is closing its doors due to worsening insecurity after gangs attacked the ... when gang members broke some 500 inmates out of prison.