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Apr 3, 2024 · More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in less than three weeks, the vast majority to escape unrelenting gang violence, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday. More ...
Apr 21, 2024 · World News. Haitians scramble to survive, seeking food, water and safety as gang violence chokes the capital. 1 of 20 |. Neighbors raise a metal gate as they work to install it as a barricade against gangs, in the Petion-Ville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, April 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Read More. 2 of 20 |.
Mar 5, 2024 · Updated 8:27 PM PDT, March 4, 2024. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons ...
5 days ago · PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Gangs in Haiti laid siege to several neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, burning homes and exchanging gunfire with police for hours as hundreds fled the violence early Thursday in one of the biggest attacks since Haiti’s new prime minister was announced. The attacks began late Wednesday in neighborhoods including ...
5 days ago · A police officer kept watch in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in early March, a day after gang violence left at least five dead and 20 injured. Credit...
Mar 7, 2024 · Haiti’s government announced Thursday that it was extending a curfew to curb relentless violent gang attacks that have paralyzed the capital of Port-au-Prince. (AP video: Pierre Luxama) Photos. By DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON. Updated 4:40 PM PDT, March 7, 2024.
Feb 26, 2021 · PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian authorities announced Friday that more than 400 inmates escaped and 25 people died in a prison breakout, making it the country's largest and deadliest one in a decade, with the prison director and a powerful gang leader among those killed.
