Almost no kidnappings were recorded in the last month and there were 43 gang-linked murders, down from 146 in the first three ...

and sexual violence, often at random. The current gang structure arguably began under the auspices of former leader Jean-Bertrande Aristide, Daniel Foote, the former US special envoy to Haiti who ...

Widespread gang violence has plagued Haiti for nearly two years, as armed groups vie for control after the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, which created a power vacuum.

An armed gang near Haiti’s capital ambushed two armored police vehicles and killed an officer in the latest attack against ...

“The security crisis in the country is putting journalists at a constant risk of extreme violence ... and 277 kidnappings in gang-related incidents, mostly in Haiti’s gang-dominated capital.

People are being kidnapped and held for ransom, sometimes even after multiple payments are made. Women and girls are brutally ...

“Gang violence is expanding at an alarming rate in areas previously considered relatively safe in Port-au-Prince and outside the capital,” Maria Isabel Salvador, special representative to ...

More than 600 people were killed last month in violence in the capital of Haiti, which is in the grip of a political-economic crisis, the United Nations said on Monday. "In the month of April ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Two local journalists have been killed in Haiti over the past couple of weeks as rampant gang violence has gripped the capital of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas.

The vigilante movement, known as “Bwa Kale,” began after residents of the capital Port-au-Prince lynched and set fire to over ...

Gang violence in crisis-torn Haiti is expanding at "an alarming rate" in areas previously considered quite safe, the UN's envoy to the country told a Security Council meeting Wednesday. Maria ...