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On 6 and 11 December 2024, the commune of Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was the site of a massacre perpetrated by a gang controlling the area of Wharf Jeremie, leaving at least 207 people dead according to the U.N. [1] [2] [3] Elderly Haitian Vodou practitioners were reportedly the primary targets.
Port-au-Prince (/ ˌ p ɔːr t oʊ ˈ p r ɪ n s / PORT oh PRINSS; French: [pɔʁ o pʁɛ̃s] ⓘ; Haitian Creole: Pòtoprens, [pɔtopɣɛ̃s]) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. [ 2 ]
On Tuesday, December 24, 2025 heavy downpour was still affecting the city of Port-de-Paix in northwest Haiti. At least seven people had died and at least 11,000 homes were flooded local ...
On 9 March, gangs attacked and occupied the headquarters of the Institute of Social Welfare in Port-au Prince, while the government of the Dominican Republic announced plans to evacuate its officials and citizens from Port-au-Prince. [32] On 21 March, one of the gang leaders, known only as Makandal, was killed by the bwa kale in Petion-Ville. [33]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two reporters were killed and several were wounded Tuesday in a gang attack in Haiti on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital, the country's ...
A United Nations’ source said Sunday that around 3,500 prisoners are believed to have escaped Haiti’s National Penitentiary in Port-Au-Prince during the weekend. There had been 3,687 prisoners ...
On 3 October 2024, the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, was the site of a massacre [1] perpetrated by the Gran Grif gang, leaving at least 115 people dead [2] and at least 50 injured. [3]
A United Nations report in June said that gangs had taken over a vast majority of Port au Prince’s street geography, prompting more than 165,00 Haitians to abandon their homeland. Some Haitians ...