Food insecurity worsened around the world in 2023, with about 282 million people suffering from acute hunger due to conflicts, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to United Nations agencies and development groups. Extreme weather events and economic shocks added to the number of those facing acute food insecurity, which…
Deportations ‘could be a death sentence’, advocates say, as gang violence and instability grip the Caribbean country. The United States has sent dozens of Haitian citizens back to their country on a deportation flight, despite a surge in deadly gang violence and widespread instability in the Caribbean nation. A spokesperson…
Questions remain over long-awaited transitional body tasked with picking next prime minister and cabinet. Haiti has formally established a transitional council to fill a leadership vacuum by choosing a new prime minister, and to restore order in the Caribbean country ravaged by gang violence. A decree published in the official…
Rights advocates are calling on countries across the Americas — notably the United States and the Dominican Republic — to stop deporting migrants and asylum seekers to Haiti amid a surge in gang violence and political instability there. Speaking at an event on Thursday in Washington, DC, Guerline Jozef, head…
Panic descends in Haiti’s capital as police and gangs exchange fire overnight, while political leaders continue to debate the formation of a transition council. Violence has flared again in Haiti, with gangs engaging in running gun battles with police, as the effort to push forward with a political solution to…
Gang violence has eroded the rule of law and brought state institutions close to collapse, report finds. More than 1,500 people have been killed in gang violence in Haiti so far this year, the United Nations Human Rights Office says. Haiti’s gang wars have intensified in recent weeks with heavily…
Canada has organised helicopter flights for ‘vulnerable’ citizens to leave Haiti for the neighbouring Dominican Republic. Canada has launched a programme to get its citizens out of Haiti, as the Caribbean nation grapples with a surge in gang violence, political instability and a widening humanitarian crisis. Speaking to reporters in…
For years, as armed groups plunged Haiti into deeper unrest, human rights advocates and civil society groups have issued a clear demand. Stop the flow of illicit firearms to criminal gangs — especially from the United States. Now, as a surge in deadly gang attacks grips the capital of Port-au-Prince,…
Is Haiti on the verge of collapse? We look at the current violent upheaval in the country and discuss what’s ahead. Haiti is facing a major and violent upheaval after armed gangs took control of 80 percent of the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, locking Prime Minister Ariel Henry out of the…
Montreal, Canada – Marjorie Villefranche has never experienced anything like it. For the past six months, the head of Maison d’Haiti (Haiti House), a community centre in Montreal’s St-Michel neighbourhood, has received a wave of unsolicited messages from Haitians, begging for help to leave the country. “‘Get us out of…
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