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The Port-au-Prince port, the largest in the country, can’t be permitted to shut down for “even a second,” he said during an interview on Magik 9 radio station.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Land access to a vital supply port in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince is being closed off after attacks by armed gangs, operator Caribbean Port Services (CPS) said ...
A major port terminal in Haiti was broken into Thursday as violence in the country escalated after the government extended its state of emergency.
With the Port-au-Prince airport shut down due to gang violence, Henry's chartered plane was prevented from landing in Santo Domingo and landed instead in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 5 March. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Under pressure from the gangs, protesters, and the international community, on 11 March, Ariel Henry announced his resignation.
On 5 March, with the Port-au-Prince airport shut down by gang attacks, Henry's chartered plane was also prevented from landing in Santo Domingo, and was diverted to San Juan, Puerto Rico. [ 23 ] [ 158 ] [ 159 ] Over the next days US military airlifted out its embassy personnel [ 160 ] and the European Union evacuated all diplomatic staff from ...
On 2 and 3 March, armed gangs stormed the two largest prisons in Haiti, one in Croix des Bouquets, the other in Port-au-Prince. [12] More than 4,700 inmates escaped. [ 10 ] Police were reported to be undermanned and outgunned by the gangs, with only 9,000 operating in Haiti at the time of the fighting. [ 13 ]
Key ports have been closed for more than a month, but on Thursday Florida-based non-profit Hope for Haiti said a first humanitarian flight since the capital's airport shut down had landed in Port ...
SANTO DOMINGO/OUANAMINTHE, Haiti (Reuters) -Hundreds of Haitians returned from the Dominican Republic on Thursday after the Dominican president announced an imminent total border shutdown amid a ...