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Amid the unrest in Haiti since 2018, armed gangs stormed Haiti 's two largest prisons in March 2024, resulting in more than 4,700 inmates escaping. The gangs demanded that prime minister Ariel Henry resign, attacking and closing Toussaint Louverture International Airport and preventing Henry from entering the country.
First, armed groups attacked Haiti’s largest prison and orchestrated a jailbreak of nearly 4,000 inmates, many of them murderers, kidnappers and gang leaders. Now the country’s National ...
v. t. e. Since 2020, Haiti 's capital Port-au-Prince has been the site of an ongoing gang war between two major groups and their allies: the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies (FRG9 or G9) and the G-Pep. [2][3][24] The Government of Haiti and Haitian security forces have struggled to maintain their control of Port-au-Prince amid ...
25 June – Kenyan police units arrive in Haiti for a United Nations-backed security mission to restore order. [21]29 June – The Biden administration expands its Temporary Protected Status program to 309,000 Haitian refugees in the United States until February 2026, offering the refugees deportation relief and work permits.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Haiti's neighbors on Monday began shoring up their defenses and recalling embassy staff as a gang conflict in the Caribbean nation escalated and thousands fled fresh ...
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Also in 2023, a former Haitian senator, Joseph Joël John, who hoped to become president, [101] a retired Colombian army officer, Germán Alejandro Rivera Garcia, a Haitian businessman, Rodolphe Jaar, and—in 2024—a former DEA informant, Joseph Vincent, were sentenced to life in prison in a Miami court for their roles in the assassination.
August 16, 2024 at 5:51 PM. By Harold Isaac. PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A prison break in the Haitian city of Saint-Marc left 12 inmates dead on Friday, Mayor Myriam Fievre said, the third such ...