Why Haiti’s cities keep falling to gangs: New UN report provides disturbing insight

Why Haiti’s cities keep falling to gangs: New UN report provides disturbing insight

The upper-middle-class community of Kenscoff, which overlooks Haiti’s volatile capital, is about an hour’s drive up the hill from one of the last remaining enclaves in metropolitan Port-au-Prince that’s still relatively free from gang control.

The international organization Médecins Sans Frontières has decided to close two health care centers in Port-au-Prince due to the violence faced by its staff. Gabriel Mayorga, responsible for humanitarian affairs at MSF in Haiti, explained that four of his vehicles were attacked while moving in a convoy and three of them received 15 gunshot wounds, which demonstrates the harassment that the organization suffers in the country. “Although none of …

Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau made this announcement in front of the Senate. He answered a question from Senator de Saint-Barthélemy Micheline Jacques, president of the Senate delegation to overseas.

Corruption scandal in Haiti highlights shortcomings of U.S.-backed political transition – Miami Herald - Corruption By Cops

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Diario Libre, Abstracto Latinoamericano, April 11, 2025. Eighty percent “or up to 85 percent” of the territory of Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti, is currently in the hands of armed groups or gangs, said Wednesday the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Haiti, Marisela Silva Chau. The Caribbean nation drags decades of security crisis but since [...] La entrada Haiti. Armed groups control “up to 85 percent of the capit…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic reported that, on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 9, criminal gangs took control of the Haitian commune of Mirebalais, where the building housing the Dominican consulate was located in that area. The institution also detailed that, thanks to the preventive measures adopted, all Dominican personnel were evacuated days earlier, and the premises were closed at the time of the occupation of…