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UN agencies warn of starvation risk in Sudan, Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali, call for urgent aid

Two U.N. agencies are warning of rising food emergencies including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war and in Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali due to restricted movements of people and goods

The Independent UK

Haiti's deadly vigilante movement sees decline in gang violence - report

Violence by armed gangs has fallen "drastically" since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement that has seen at least 160 suspected criminals killed in the last month, a report by local human rights research group CARDH said on Sunday.

Reuters

More Evidence that Biden's Private Sponsorship Migrant Parole Policy Reduced Illegal Migration by Making the Legal Kind Easier

A new study by the conservative Manhattan Institute concludes that the expansion of private sponsorship parole to migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela has reduced illegal migration across the southern border by about 98,000 per month.

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The Haitians who built a community in Tijuana – but are still stranded

Though its population has declined, the Little Haiti community built by asylum seekers stuck in Mexico as the US tightened immigration policies remains

The Guardian - US

US allows Haitians into humanitarian-parole program but cuts back seasonal workers’ visas

The housekeeping jobs paid as much as $14 an hour, were located at a hotel in the middle of the United States and came with housing and three free meals a day.

Miami Herald

With Haiti in chaos, Canada buries its head in the sand

“Things are now at a breaking point. This crisis will not pass.”

The Conversation

Biden taps experienced career diplomat to serve as US ambassador to Haiti

President Joe Biden is nominating a career diplomat with nearly four decades of experience in some of the world’s toughest postings to be U.S. ambassador in Haiti.

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Police officer is killed in Haiti after gang sets armored vehicles ablaze

An armed gang near Haiti’s capital ambushed two armored police vehicles and killed an officer in the latest attack against the country’s beleaguered force.

Miami Herald

Once on This Island review – stirring Little Mermaid musical in colonial Haiti

A young woman offers her life to save an unworthy aristocrat in a passionately sung fable of Caribbean history

The Guardian - UK

Gang violence in Haiti: The reality of everyday life in Port-au-Prince

In Haiti, gang violence is still rocking the capital Port-au-Prince. We look at two very different initiatives to try to keep it in check: a basketball association working to keep kids off the streets and on the court, and a vigilante movement where civilians are taking justice into their own…

France 24

Fed up with gang violence, Haitians are taking the law into their own hands

Fed up with gang violence, Haitians are hunting down people they suspect of being connected to these infamous armed groups, not hesitating to kill them. The movement – called Bwa Kale – began on April 24 in Port-au-Prince and quickly spread around the country. Dozens of people have been killed…

France 24

UN chief in Jamaica urges international response to Haiti's spiraling crisis

U.N. Secretary General António Guterres is warning that Haiti’s “tragic situation” threatens the security of the Caribbean region and beyond as he pressed the international community for a response

The Independent UK

Duchess's police escort hits woman, and Trump files appeal in sexual assault lawsuit — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for Friday morning's stories as they happened.

ABC News

Haiti conflict puts over 100,000 kids at risk of starving to death, UN says

More than 115,600 children in Haiti are expected to suffer severe wasting from malnutrition this year, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Thursday, as an escalation of armed violence worsens food insecurity and a cholera outbreak.

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The Independent UK

Fire consumes popular street market near Haiti's capital

A large fire has torn through a street market in Haiti and consumed thousands of dollars’ worth of goods as vendors wailed over their losses

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UN: 258 Million People Faced Acute Food Insecurity in 2022

More than a quarter-billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year due to conflicts, climate change, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, according to a report published Wednesday. The Global Report on Food Crises, an alliance of humanitarian organizations founded by the…

Reuters

US parole program to continue post-Title 42, Mexico to accept returnees

The United States will continue to accept migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela under a humanitarian program after May 11, when the COVID-19 health policy known as Title 42 is set to end, the U.S. and Mexican governments said on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

5 killed in Haiti as vigilante crowds target suspected gangs

Vigilante killings are surging across Haiti’s capital and beyond

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‘It’s hell’: vigilantes take to Haiti’s streets in bloody reprisals against gangs

Members of terrorised Port-au-Prince communities armed with rocks and machetes carry out wave of lynchings

Reuters

Peru sends military to Chile border to block undocumented migrants

Some 700 Peruvian soldiers and police officers will reinforce its southern border with Chile to prevent the entry of undocumented migrants, Peruvian authorities said on Friday, amid diplomatic tensions between the two countries over the issue.

The Independent UK

2 journalists killed in Haiti as gang violence spikes

Two local journalists have been killed in Haiti over the past couple of weeks as rampant gang violence has gripped the capital of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas

Reuters

Mexico's Haitian asylum seekers lack access to basic resources, says IRC

More than nine in 10 Haitians seeking asylum in Mexico lack the resources to cover basic necessities such as food, shelter and medical care, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) aid group said on Thursday.

France 24

Macron marks 175th anniversary of abolition of slavery in France

French President Emmanuel Macron marked the 175th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in France on Thursday with a tribute to ex-slave Toussaint Louverture, father of Haiti's independence and a "tireless fighter" for freedom, the Elysée presidential palace announced.

Daily Mirror

Mob pour petrol on gang members before burning them alive in capital's streets

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Unsettling footage from Haiti shows the bloodied men being forced to lie down by rifle-wielding police before bystanders piled tyres on top of them, doused them with petrol and set them alight

The Independent UK

Haiti police condemn vigilante killings amid gang violence

Police are pledging to crack down on unrelenting gang violence that has paralyzed swaths of Haiti’s capital, and are pleading with Haitians to end a string of grisly vigilante killings

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