Dozens of deportees from the United States were on board a flight that landed in Haiti from Miami with 46 passengers, 25 of whom were convicted felons, according to reports. The Trump administration discarded protections that shielded roughly half a million Haitians from deportation, meaning they would lose their work …
Read More »Haiti: gang raid kills 20 people
At least 20 people, including children, were killed when gang members attacked a small town in central Haiti. Another 50 were injured as the Grand Grif gang burned homes and cars in the town of Pont-Sondé, said Bertide Harace, spokeswoman for the Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness to Save …
Read More »Kenya confident its police will end Haiti gang war
Kenya says it is confident the deployment of hundreds of its police to Haiti by January will end gang warfare there. Last year Haiti’s government appealed for help because of the spiralling gang violence. Gangs have largely overpowered the police and now control more than three-quarters of the capital. Initially …
Read More »Dozen suspected gang members stoned and burned alive in Haiti
More than a dozen suspected gang members were stoned and burned alive on Monday by residents of a neighborhood in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, according to police and witnesses. This new outburst of deadly violence occurred when the police had just arrested these armed men, in a context of high …
Read More »$100 million in emergency aid for Haiti
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved emergency aid of $105 million for Haiti, which is plunged into a humanitarian crisis aggravated by inflation. The funds should enable the Caribbean country to “support those most affected by rising food prices through food distributions and payments to the most vulnerable …
Read More »Haiti: suspected cholera cases continue to rise
The number of cholera contaminations continues to increase in Haiti, according to a new bulletin from the Ministry of Public Health obtained on Tuesday. The new figures fuel fears of a new disaster in this country already plunged into a humanitarian and security crisis. As of Monday, 606 suspected and …
Read More »