UN urges measures to stop arms trafficking fueling Haiti’s gang wars
By Sarah Morland (Reuters) – The head of the United Nation’s drugs and crime office on Thursday warned of a “vicious cycle” of arms trafficking …
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Haiti’s kidnapped nuns freed after week in captivity -archbishop
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Six Catholic nuns who were kidnapped in the Haitian capital nearly a week ago have been released alongside two more hostages, the …
Haiti’s police force shrinks amid gang crisis -union
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s national police has lost nearly 3,300 officers in three years, according to data from the force’s main trade union, as under-gunned …
Haiti’s displaced hope UN-backed force will bring security
By Steven Aristil PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – “We are obliged to accept it,” said Charles Adison in one of the many schools that have been converted …
Haiti’s deadly vigilante movement sees decline in gang violence – report
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Violence by armed gangs has fallen “drastically” since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement that has seen at least 160 suspected …
Haiti’s police cannot beat gangs without international force – U.N.
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Haiti’s police will not win a fight against criminal gangs without more international support, including the key deployment …
Haiti’s PM Henry calls for foreign help amid gang blockade
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry on Wednesday called on the international community to help the Caribbean nation, as a gang blockade of …
Leader of Haiti’s 400 Mawozo gang extradited to U.S.
By Gessika Thomas and Brian Ellsworth PORT-AU-PRINCE – The leader of Haiti’s feared 400 Mawozo gang, which last year abducted a group of missionaries from …