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Last week, during an official visit to Ottawa, he was unable to convince Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to lead a military intervention into Haiti, and Biden said the U.S. will now need to look to ...
Hundreds of inmates have fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility overnight. Before Saturday’s attacks, Haiti’s prisons held 11,940 inmates, and most of the facilities ...
More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security mission last ...
More than $13 million in U.S. funding for an international security force helping fight armed gangs in Haiti has been frozen under President Donald Trump's 90-day pause on foreign aid, the United ...
Since 2020, Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince has been the site of an ongoing gang war. The government of Haiti and Haitian security forces have struggled to maintain their control of Port-au-Prince amid this conflict, [1] with gangs reportedly controlling up to 90% of the city by 2023. [37]
On 2 and 3 March, armed gangs stormed the two largest prisons in Haiti, one in Croix des Bouquets, the other in Port-au-Prince. [12] More than 4,700 inmates escaped. [ 10 ] Police were reported to be undermanned and outgunned by the gangs, with only 9,000 operating in Haiti at the time of the fighting. [ 13 ]
Haiti, in contrast, stands trapped between three bleak options: waiting for an international police force that seems increasingly unlikely to arrive; resigning to indefinite rule by gangs; or ...
Haiti’s prime minister was last seen in Puerto Rico, negotiating his return to a homeland gripped by violence and controlled by heavily armed gangsters. With his fate in the air and the ...