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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 ]
People on the beach in Jacmel on Aug. 25, 2024. Residents in the port city in southeast Haiti fear that the gang violence of Port-au-Prince and its outskirts will eventually reach them.
A gruesome hours-long gang attack in Haiti a couple of days ago left dozens dead, torching homes and cars, while forcing thousands more to run for their lives, in the latest blow to a country that ...
Haiti has been gripped by a wave of unrest and gang violence in recent years. Warring gangs control much of Port-au-Prince, choking off vital supply lines to the rest of the country.
The Gran Grif gang operates in the department of Artibonite and is considered one of Haiti's cruelest gangs, [5] with nine mass kidnappings attributed to the group between October 2023 and January 2024. [6] The gang was formed after former legislator Prophane Victor began arming young men nearly a decade ago to secure his election and control ...
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. [35]
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 ...
GENEVA (Reuters) -Gang violence in Haiti has killed over 1,500 people so far this year, including many children, while dozens have been lynched, stoned or burned alive by so-called self-defence ...