Haiti’s new Gang Suppression Force appears poised to meet its ambitious target of 5,500 troops, after a number of nations, including Chad and Bangladesh, offered to deploy soldiers, engineers and ...
Hurricane Melissa’s devastating impact continues to be felt in southern Haiti, where 1.2 million people have been affected by the storm even though there was no direct hit like with Jamaica.
The UN authorization of a new security mission in Haiti marks an escalation in efforts to curb surging gang violence. Aimed ...
A human rights group says dozens of people in Haiti’s capital have been killed in a clash between a powerful gang coalition ...
Dr. Vanessa Rouzier, director of research at Haiti's GHESKIO medical center, speaks about the ongoing healthcare challenges ...
Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said the scale of sexual violence in Haiti, including the systematic use of rape by ...
Observers fear the anti-gang mission will repeat the mistakes of the previous foreign intervention and could throw more fuel ...
Heavily armed gangs attacked Haiti’s central region over the weekend, killing men, women and children as the gangs set fire to homes and forced survivors to flee into the darkness.
Already mired in an insecurity crisis that has displaced hundreds of thousands, Haiti now faces expanding gang-controlled trafficking corridors and growing multinational collaboration among regional ...
Threats from Haitian gangs reportedly prompted the United Nations (U.N.) and foreign embassies to advise staff to stay off the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince Monday. U.N. security directed ...