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 to increasingly powerful Haitian gangs,…
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 archbishop of Port-au-Prince said in…
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 security officials battle powerful gangs…
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 into makeshift refugee camps in…
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 criminals killed in the last…
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 of a rapid action force,…
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 a key fuel terminal has…
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 the United States and Canada,…