Haiti
18 Jan
Kenya said Saturday it was sending another 217 police officers to Haiti to bolster a multinational force seeking to restore
3 Jan
More than 80 soldiers from Guatemala and El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Friday as part of the Kenyan-led multinational mission to bolster the national police force in the face of spiralling gang violence, a police official told AFP. The contingent of 75 Guatemalan and eight Salvadoran soldiers will be joined by additional troops in…
10 Dec
Nearly 200 people in Haiti were killed in brutal weekend violence reportedly orchestrated against voodoo practitioners, with the government on Monday condemning a massacre of "unbearable cruelty."
9 Dec
Close to 200 people were killed in brutal weekend violence in Haiti's capital, the United Nations said on Monday, with reports that a gang boss orchestrated the slaughter of voodoo practitioners.
19 Nov
Police and civilian self-defence groups killed 28 alleged gang members in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in an overnight operation, authorities said Tuesday, as the government seeks to regain some control of the city. Reminiscent of previous bloody vigilante reprisals against the country's gangs, an AFP photographer later saw people burning the bodies of the alleged…
1 Oct
..Synergy paves way for country to access $1.5b financing from Afreximbank’s board Haiti has become the 12th Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state to accede to the partnership agreement between and among CARICOM countries and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). During a ceremony on September 25 at the Haitian Investment Forum, held on the sidelines of the…
5 Sep
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed Thursday to violence-ravaged Haiti to evaluate progress in wresting control from gangs that have
23 Mar 2024
Heavy gunfire erupted early Saturday in the Haitian capital as residents, already enduring chaotic violence and grave food shortages, faced mounting frustration over delays in announcing a transitional government meant to restore stability.
21 Mar 2024
Negotiations to form a transitional council to govern Haiti advanced on Wednesday, as the United States airlifted more citizens to safety from gang violence that has plunged the impoverished country into chaos.
12 Mar 2024
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to resign and make way for a transitional authority, the president of Guyana said Monday after a regional meeting on a gang uprising that has plunged Haiti into violent chaos. Henry, an unelected leader who took power right before Haiti's president was assassinated in 2021, was under acute…
12 Mar 2024
Haiti, where Ariel Henry resigned as prime minister this week, has a long history of unrest and violence. Gangs run much of the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, and have in recent weeks joined forces to oust the unelected leader. AFP looks at key chapters in Haiti's recent history: - Papa/Baby Doc dictatorship - For three…
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