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More than 150 gangs are active in Haiti, where they impose their law on a powerless state. Most of them are located in the capital Port-au-Prince, which they largely control. Massacres, stray bullets, kidnappings: everyday Haitians are the first victims of their violence. FRANCE 24's Observers investigated their abuses in…

France 24

US charges Haitian gang leaders over kidnappings, offers reward

US offers up to $1m reward for information leading to capture or conviction of 400 Mawozo and Kraze Barye gang leaders.

Al Jazeera

Reporter's notebook: Haiti's at a breaking point but few want foreign intervention

The U.S. and other countries put sanctions on Haitian gangsters and a corrupt politician. But as Haiti combats hunger, cholera and gangs, many want Haitian solutions — not a foreign troop deployment.

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As U.N. mulls sending troops to Haiti, a gang's rise shows how hard that would be

As Haiti's gang-induced humanitarian crisis deepened in October, a group of looters ransacked a supermarket in a well-to-do suburb of the capital Port-au-Prince, leading police to arrest over a dozen people and take them to a nearby police station.

Reuters

Haitian journalist hospitalized after assassination attempt

Officials say a well-known Haitian journalist has survived an assassination attempt that left his car riddled with bullets in the capital of Port-au-Prince

The Independent UK

Explainer-What's driving Haiti's humanitarian crisis?

Haiti is facing a humanitarian crisis, with shortages of food, fuel and water causing catastrophic hunger, and the government pleading for military assistance from abroad.

Reuters

Haiti on verge of collapse, NGOs warn as UN talks on restoring order continue

Haitians currently facing series of crises that are becoming deadlier by the day with gangs, hunger and cholera outbreak

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Canada, US deliver long-awaited armored vehicles for Haiti police as gang attacks escalate

An Armed Forces of Canada Boeing C-17A Globemaster III aircraft arrived in Haiti Saturday, delivering the first four of more than a dozen new armored vehicles for the Haiti National Police.

Miami Herald

‘Catastrophic situation’: Haiti’s gang violence spurs outbreak of cholera, other illnesses

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — When Haiti’s leading infectious disease specialist heard that cholera, the deadly waterborne disease that he and others had spent nearly a decade trying to eradicate in the impoverished country, was back, he was angry.

Miami Herald

US cancels visas, sends Coast Guard ship to patrol waters off Haiti’s capital

The United States has sent a major Coast Guard vessel to patrol the waters near Port-au-Prince in a “sign of resolve” with the Haitian government as gang violence continues to grip the nation, and will impose new visa restrictions on Haitians involved in gang activity, the Biden administration said Wednesday.

Miami Herald

UN secretary-general proposes rapid-response troops to help Haiti regain control from gangs

The head of the United Nations threw his weight Sunday behind Haiti’s request for the immediate deployment of military troops to help the country take back control of its ports from powerful gangs and provide aid as Haitians confront a deadly cholera outbreak.

Miami Herald

Haiti's PM Henry calls for foreign help amid gang blockade

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Wednesday called on the international community to help the Caribbean nation, as a gang blockade of a key fuel terminal has created widespread shortages of goods including drinking water.

Reuters

Haiti at breaking point as economy tanks and violence soars

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, is in the grips of an inflationary vise that is squeezing its citizenry and exacerbating protests that have brought society to the breaking point

The Independent UK

Haitian police fire tear gas as thousands protest against government

Police in Haiti fired tear gas on Monday at thousands of protesters marching in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, against Prime Minister Ariel Henry's government and its handling of crippling fuel shortages and soaring prices.

Reuters

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Gang blockade cripples Haiti fuel supplies, hospitals prepare to close

A gang blockade of Haiti's principal fuel terminal has crippled day-to-day activities in the Caribbean nation and now threatens to force the closure of hospitals that rely on diesel generators for electricity.

Reuters

Haiti unrest worsens misery as residences face water shortage

Thousands in Haiti faced water shortages after days of protest virtually halted distribution, eyewitnesses said on Saturday, as an approaching storm caused more worry in the reeling country.

Miami Herald

Haiti police are still struggling. But here’s how they recently made strides against gangs

For months, the heavily armed gang members in Savien, a rural community in Haiti’s rice-growing Artibonite Valley, had been ratcheting up their terror campaign. When they weren’t brandishing their weapons openly in the streets, they were kidnapping people for ransom or stoking fear with viral videos showing the slaughter of…

Reuters

Thousands protest in Haiti over crime and inflation

Thousands of Haitians on Monday joined rallies around the Caribbean country to protest rampant crime and soaring consumer prices as its central bank reported that inflation had hit a 10-year high.

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Miami Herald

How US gun laws and South Florida ports help fuel Haiti’s escalating gang violence

MIAMI — When the cargo ship “Miss Lilie” left Miami one recent afternoon and pulled into port along Haiti’s northwest coast, it had all the markings of a legitimate government operation.

Reuters

Gangs kill former Haitian senator amid spike in violence

Gangs killed a former Haitian senator who led a government housing program on Saturday in an affluent area of Port-au-Prince, the prime minister said on Sunday, amid a spike in violence by criminal groups in the Caribbean nation's capital.

Reuters

Anger grows in Haiti over weapons trafficking from U.S. after guns shipped as church donations

A string of recent arms-trafficking scandals in Haiti, including the discovery of weapons in a shipping container labeled as church donations, has ignited anger over a steady flow of U.S. guns that are fueling rampant gang violence.

Reuters

Haiti gangs wage battles in downtown Port-au-Prince

Haitian gangs waged intense gun battles on Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, shuttering main avenues and a municipal market in the downtown area of the capital.

Reuters

Haitian children who escaped gang violence take shelter in Port-au-Prince school

Hundreds of Haitian children are taking refuge at a prestigious high school in Port-au-Prince after escaping gang violence in the town of Cite Soleil that killed some 400 people and destroyed hundreds of homes this month.

France 24

Week of gang battles kills dozens, deepens fuel shortages in Haiti

A week of clashes between rival gangs in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince has left at least 89 people dead and dozens injured, a human rights group said Wednesday.

Miami Herald

‘Luck and God’: How Haitians survive gang violence, kidnappings in their nation’s capital

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — This teeming Caribbean capital, with its hair-raising traffic, army of sidewalk vendors and once vibrant nightlife, is now a metropolis that lives only by daylight.

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