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Almost a year ago, a group of Port-au-Prince residents lynched and set fire to around a dozen men believed to be gang members launching what became known as the Bwa Kale movement, a vigilante ...
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 ]
Increasingly powerful gangs have attacked prisons and the airport serving Haiti's capital in recent days, forcing businesses and schools to close as hundreds of people fled. Heavily armed gangs ...
The U.S. military flew in Marines to reinforce its embassy in Haiti and ... Port-au-Prince, into a battlefield. ... Several nearby businesses have been looted and overtaken by armed gangs that ...
Since the government's de facto collapse in 2018, Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince has become a hotbed of anarchic gang activity with brutal murders and spates of killing. [1] This was exacerbated in 2021 by the assassination of Jovenel Moïse, leading most of the gangs in Port-au-Prince to ally with G9 or G-Pep. [1]
It comes as Port-au-Prince’s Caribbean Port Services (CPS) terminal, a major player in Haiti’s food import supply chain, was broken into around 8 a.m., two security sources told CNN.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A Spirit Airlines flight destined for the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince was struck by gunfire on Monday, forcing it to be diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic.
The 2024 Cité Soleil massacre took place on 6 and 11 December 2024, in the commune of Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was the site of a massacre perpetrated by a gang controlling the area of Wharf Jeremie, leaving at least 207 people dead according to the U.N. [1] [2] [3] Elderly Haitian Vodou practitioners were reportedly the primary targets.