Around December 11, for instance, the UN noted that the gangs killed more than 70 people near the town of Petite-Riviere de l’Artibonite, and vigilante groups killed 67 people, many of them assumed to ...

Senior U.N. officials warn that Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to ...

Almost 5,000 people have been killed in Haiti since October 2024, displacing hundreds of thousands as gang violence has ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Surging violence in Haiti from clashes between security forces and armed gangs since March has displaced nearly 580,000 people, according to a report from the U.N ...

Thousands have been forced to forgo an annual pilgrimage to a revered waterfall in central Haiti, now in territory held by ...

January 2023 — After Haiti’s government fails to hold elections, citing unprecedented levels of gang violence, Haiti is stripped of its last democratically elected officials.

The security situation in Haiti has once again degraded despite months of support from United Nations-approved Kenyan-led forces sent in to aid the Haitian police as gang violence escalates. In a ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March, the U.N. children’s agency said this week as the Caribbean country struggles to curb ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The attack was brazen, streamed live on the internet: Men carrying big guns walked into a Holy Thursday church service, grabbed the pastor and three parishioners and led ...

Violence in Haiti escalates amid a civilian vigilante movement NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Miami Herald Caribbean Correspondent Jacqueline Charles about the horrific uptick of violence in Haiti, ...

Haitians capital as gangs ratchet up violence Violence has exploded in Port-au-Prince since Sunday when the Haiti's interim prime minister was fired amid political infighting.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to tackle gang violence, hopes were high. Coordinated gang attacks on prisons ...