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‘It has been pure terror’: Haiti’s seven days of bedlam

Politically connected gangs launched a wave of attacks across the capital, sowing mayhem and challenging the government

The Guardian - US

UN Security Council Meeting Raises Alarm On 'Critical' Haiti Situation

The UN Security Council expressed its concern over the deteriorating situation in violence-gripped Haiti on Wednesday, as Washington ramped up pressure on absent Prime Minister Ariel Henry to secure a political settlement.

International Business Times

Haiti's prime minister is stranded abroad as gangs threaten 'civil war'

Haiti's embattled prime minister is in neighboring Puerto Rico, still unable to return to Port-au-Prince, as calls for him to resign grow louder by the day.

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Haiti gang boss tells absent prime minister to quit or face civil war

Silence from Ariel Henry, who remains abroad, as Jimmy Chérizier, AKA ‘Barbecue’, warns country will ‘become a paradise or a hell’

The Guardian - US

UN Security Council To Meet On Spiraling Haiti Crisis

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Wednesday on violence-wracked Haiti, where marauding gangs are threatening a bloody civil war unless absent Prime Minister Ariel Henry steps down.

International Business Times

Top Haitian Gang Leader Warns Of Civil War, Genocide

As the latest crisis in the violence-wracked Caribbean nation spiraled, gunfire shut down some flights at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Haiti's capital.

Latin Times

Chaos Grips Haiti After Airport Attack, Deadly Unrest

Haiti's police academy came under attack by an armed gang Tuesday as the tiny Caribbean nation fell into deeper isolation in the wake of an assault on the airport and a deadly prison breakout.

International Business Times

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US says no troops to Haiti as country reels from explosion of gang violence

Washington says no despite ‘frantic’ talks between diplomats, as bodies lie in street and army battles gun-toting gang members

The Guardian - US

Armed gangs try to take control of Haiti's main airport after jailbreak

Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons.

France 24

Haiti’s weekend of violence puts government future in doubt

Armed gangs attack international airport and free over 3,800 prisoners in seemingly coordinated effort to oust Ariel Henry

The Guardian - US

Haitians are desperate after Kenyan court blocks police force deployment

Uncertainty have been spreading since Friday's ruling, blocking the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force, with violence reaching new records as gangs tighten their grip on Haiti's capital.

WEKU

Kenyan Court Blocks Deployment of Police Force Set to Lead Multinational Mission to Haiti

The court upheld arguments presented by opponents of the decision, who called the mission unconstitutional

Latin Times

MSF Suspends Work In Haiti Hospital After Armed Gang Executes Patient

International aid group Doctors Without Borders said Thursday it was suspending work at a medical center in the Haitian capital after an armed group pulled a critically ill patient from an ambulance and shot him dead in the street.

International Business Times

Investigation: How a Haitian congregation tried to take down a gang

On August 26, an evangelical pastor and his followers attempted to attack a gang in the north of Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, armed with sticks and machetes. The gang retaliated with firearms, killing at least 21 people. What exactly happened that day? Why did ordinary churchgoers go to confront an…

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Haitian students play drums and strum guitars to escape hunger and gang violence

Children across Haiti's capital are playing drums, bass guitar and piano to drown out the trouble that erupts around them daily

France 24

US pledges $100 million to back proposed Kenyan-led multinational force to Haiti

The Biden administration pledged $100 million on Friday to support a proposed Kenyan-led multinational force to restore security to conflict-ravaged Haiti and urged other nations to make similar contributions.

The Guardian - US

Haiti’s most powerful gang boss calls for uprising to overthrow prime minister

Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Chérizier issued call to arms as US looks to UN to approve Kenya-led mission to stem country’s growing violence

France 24

Human Rights Watch urges international intervention to end surging gang violence in Haiti

A human rights group urged the international community on Monday to intervene quickly to end spiraling violence by gangs in Haiti as it detailed the brutal rapes and killings committed in the troubled nation's capital.

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Aid efforts for Haitians suffer blow with kidnapping of American nurse and daughter

Gang warfare has increasingly plagued Haiti since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Criminal control has worsened and today the innocent are often killed, raped and held for ransom.

WEKU

A New Hampshire nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti

The humanitarian group El Roi Haiti said Alix Dorsainvil and her child were taken from the organization's campus near Port-au-Prince.

The Guardian - US

UN unable to feed 100,000 Haitians this month amid ‘catastrophic’ conditions

The World Food Programme’s Haiti response is only 16% funded with more than half of the country’s population regularly hungry

Miami Herald

The UN head believes ‘Haiti can be rescued.’ Here’s what he says needs to happen

United Nations Secretary General António Guterres on Saturday urged the international community to continue to provide funding and equipment to Haiti’s beleaguered police force.

Miami Herald

They don’t have a deal, but Haitian leaders leave Jamaica with promise to keep talking

Three days of high-stake negotiations between interim Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry and a cross-section of Haitian political and civic leaders have ended without a resolution to their country’s multifaceted crisis, but with an agreement to continue talking back in Port-au-Prince.

The Independent UK

Vigilantes in Haiti strike back at gangsters with brutal street justice

Old cars, used tires and barbed wire block off the biggest neighborhood in the capital of Haiti

Reuters

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.

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