Haiti declares state of emergency after double jailbreak allows more than 4000 inmates to escape

US Citizens Told to Leave Haiti Following Mass Jailbreak, Emergency Declaration

American citizens are being urged to leave Haiti immediately over safety concerns, the American embassy in the country’s capital warned on Sunday in a bulletin. The U.S. State Department urged […] The post US Citizens Told to Leave Haiti Following Mass Jailbreak, Emergency Declaration appeared first on The Western Journal.

The assault on two prisons and the release of thousands of detainees causes violence and serious insecurity in the capital Port au Prince. The NGO alert

Haiti Declares State of Emergency

Haiti’s National Penitentiary in the nation’s capital, Port-au-Prince, was overrun by armed gang members over the weekend as protests demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry have raged for nearly a month. Nearly all of the 4,000 inmates are believed to have escaped, and the Government of Haiti declared a state of emergency last ... The post Haiti Declares State of Emergency appeared first on The New American.

[Mexico City = Ichihara Tomohiro] The Haitian government, an island nation in the Caribbean, declared a state of emergency in the region including the capital Port-au-Prince on the 3rd. Nearly 4,000 people escaped from the prison where prisoners, including the suspect in the murder of the former president, were held, and security deteriorated rapidly. Dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Henri, who is unable to resolve the turmoil that has contin…

Haiti in state of emergency and under curfew after thousands of inmates escape from Port-au-Prince jail

The security crisis in Haiti pushed the government to declare a state of emergency and to impose a curfew in most parts of the country on Sunday night, according to the prime minister’s office and interim president, Ariel Henry. The decision, which will be in effect for 72 hours, comes after thousands of prisoners escaped from the main jail in the capital, Port-au-Prince, following an attack by the criminal gangs that plague the Caribbean countr…

US tells citizens to leave Haiti after jailbreak

The United States called for its citizens to leave Haiti \"as soon as possible\" after violence escalated over the weekend, which saw 15,000 more people flee the fighting and armed men break thousands of inmates from Haiti's largest prison. Read more at straitstimes.com.