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23 Mar
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
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
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
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…
10 Mar
Pope Francis on Sunday offered his prayers for Haiti, where criminal gangs have unleashed havoc in recent days.
9 Mar
Sporadic gunfire rang out in Port-au-Prince Friday night, an AFP correspondent there heard, as residents desperately sought shelter amid the recent explosion of gang violence in the Haitian capital.
6 Mar
A reciprocal agreement between Kenya and Haiti to send police from the East African nation to the violence-wracked country has raised hopes that the Nairobi-led, UN-backed multinational peace mission could deploy soon.
6 Mar
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, whose whereabouts have been uncertain as his country spirals into worsening chaos, landed in Puerto Rico, a spokesperson for the US territory's governor said Tuesday.
4 Mar
Haiti's government declared on Sunday a state of emergency and a nighttime curfew in a bid to quell a wave of violence sparked by a gang assault on the capital city's main prison that allowed thousands of inmates to escape.
3 Mar
An unknown number of inmates have escaped after armed gangs stormed the main prison in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Saturday evening, according to the French embassy and local media.
20 Feb
A Haitian judge has indicted dozens of people over alleged involvement in the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, including his widow, a former prime minister, and an ex-chief of police, according to local media.
21 Jan
Pope Francis called Sunday for the release of a group of people including six nuns kidnapped in Haiti, the Caribbean nation plagued by gang violence.

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