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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.
Typhoon Bebinca, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ferdie, was a strong tropical cyclone that affected East China, Guam, Philippines and the Ryukyu Islands in early September 2024. Bebinca made landfall in Shanghai , China, becoming the strongest typhoon to hit the city since Typhoon Gloria in 1949.
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.
GENEVA (Reuters) -Gang violence in Haiti has killed over 1,500 people so far this year, including many children, while dozens have been lynched, stoned or burned alive by so-called self-defence ...
At around 3 a.m. a boat carrying Haitian migrants traveling illegally from Fort Saint-Michel en route to the Turks and Caicos Islands on a 250-kilometer journey caught fire after two explosions on board off the northern coast of Haiti and sank. [6][7] 40 Haitian migrants were killed including the captain of the boat and 41 others were rescued ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A fuel truck explosion on a road in Haiti's southern peninsula on Saturday killed 24 people and left half of the 40 injured survivors with third-degree burns, the ...
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 ...
Size. 3,000+. The Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti is an international police force approved by the United Nations Security Council on 2 October 2023 to assist the government of Haiti in restoring law and order amid worsening civil strife and gang violence since 2018. [2]