Gangs in Haiti killed at least 5,600 people last year, according to a new United Nations report. The report from the Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights said an additional 3,700 ...

Haiti.- Haitian police have arrested Profane Victor, a former deputy for Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonito, on charges of ...

The U.N. migration agency says internal displacement in Haiti, largely caused by gang violence, has tripled over the last ...

More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated ...

Police in Haiti have arrested a former Haitian lawmaker, Prophane Victor, for allegedly arming gangs.

Nineteen suspects accused in the July 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse arrived at a courthouse as ...

Police in Haiti have arrested a former legislator long accused of arming gangs in the country’s central region and previously sanctioned by the U.S. and Canada ...

An angry crowd killed alleged gang leader Faro Markenson, also known as “Commander Tirad,” after Dominican police arrested him and handed him over to Haitian authorities. Faro Markenson, described by ...

To curb gang killings and a rise in homicides, the measure empowers the military to make arrests and allows the ... Last year, the murder rate was just below Haiti’s. The national security ...

The state of emergency empowers the country’s police to arrest people “on suspicion ... is trying to crack down rising levels of gang violence in Haiti by extending embargo on weapons.

They have made no major arrests and seized no gang territory. Even before the escalation of violence in the past three years, millions of impoverished Haitian youth faced grim prospects thanks to ...