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A nine-year-old boy who leads a gang of four or five other boys holds a shotgun. The neighbourhood where he was photographed, Solino, had recently been invaded by larger armed groups, upsetting an ...
View of the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission base located near Port-au-Prince’s international airport in Haiti. Jose Iglesias jiglesias@miamiherald.com From the onset ...
In the areas of Haiti controlled by gangs, nothing moves without their getting a cut: not food, not fuel, not even humanitarian aid. Their extortion racket is so extensive that the country’s ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — (AP) — Dozens of protesters marched up the hills of Haiti’s capital on Sunday demanding an end to persistent gang violence as they called on the country’s prime ...
A report released by the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) on Tuesday noted a significant deterioration in Haiti’s human rights situation since January, emphasizing the alarming impact ...
Meanwhile, Haiti’s National Police, bolstered by a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police, has struggled in its fight against gangs as the mission remains underfunded and understaffed, with ...
The agency listed the Viv Ansanm coalition, which consists of more than two dozen of Haiti's best-armed criminal groups, and the Gran Grif gang as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially ...
The United States on Friday designated Haiti's powerful Viv Ansanm gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital Port-au-Prince and spread to surrounding areas ...
Management of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved the First Review of the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) with Haiti. The SMP takes into account Haiti’s fragility and capacity constraints ...