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The Port international de Port-au-Prince (UN/LOCODE: HTPAP [1]) is the seaport in the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. It suffered catastrophic damage in the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Some of docks and warehouses are operated by the government's Autorité Portuaire Nationale (APN), and some are run by private companies. [2]
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 ]
A major port terminal in Haiti was broken into Thursday as violence in the country escalated after the government extended its state of emergency.
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.
From 2017 to 2021, with Haiti's political leadership deadlocked, public administration virtually shut down due to a lack of funding, and the judicial system in shambles, gangs seized political power through co-operative politicians, and economic control through financing by the business elite, protection rackets, kidnappings and murders.
In Port-au-Prince, Gana — a 30-year-old Nigerian who also worked in southern Yemen in 2021 and 2022 — said many hospitals have shut down over the past week amid the worsening violence.
On 12 September, a federation of over a dozen gangs (known as the G9 Family and Allies) [3] responded by digging trenches and placing cargo containers as barriers on the road to the Varreux fuel terminal—Haiti's largest fuel depot, where 70% of the country's fuel is stored [29] —in Port-au-Prince's Cité Soleil area, blockading it. They ...
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 ...