Country is mired in political strife with international peacekeepers drafted in to restore stability. Haiti’s government has set up a provisional electoral council to prepare the troubled Caribbean country for its first general elections since 2016. The electoral council represents groups including farmers, journalists, human rights activists and the Vodou…
The injured are transported to hospital after explosion near Miragoane in Haiti’s southern Nippes region, officials say. More than 15 people have been killed and about 40 injured when a tanker truck leaking petrol exploded in southern Haiti, interim Prime Minister Garry Conille says. Conille said in a social media…
A Michigan couple allegedly abandoned their adopted Haitian child at a Jamaican boarding school that was shut down over abuse claims, leaving him alone in the foreign county for months. Mark and Spring Goldman sent their adopted son Elijah, 17, to American-owned Atlantis Leadership Academy in the Island nation after…
US Treasury Department says Michel Joseph Martelly ‘abused his influence’ to facilitate drug trafficking to the US. The United States has imposed sanctions on Haiti’s former President Michel Joseph Martelly over alleged drug trafficking, accusing him of playing a significant role in perpetuating the continuing crisis in the country. The…
Residents in central city of Saint-Marc have been advised by authorities to remain vigilant for escapees. A prison break in central Haiti has resulted in the deaths of at least 11 inmates, the authorities said, the third such incident this year amid a continuing humanitarian crisis fuelled by gang violence….
More than half a million Haitians have been internally displaced by gang violence that killed hundreds this year. At least 40 Haitians have been killed at sea and several people were injured after their boat caught fire, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. The boat, which was carrying more…
Another 200 Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti under a United Nations-backed mission to try to quell rampant gang violence in the troubled Caribbean nation. The new batch that arrived on Tuesday brings the total to 400 Kenyan boots on the ground in the violence-ravaged capital of Port-au-Prince, Haitian…
Hundreds of officers travelled to Haiti to begin a UN-backed mission to curtail the influence of the country’s gangs. A group of Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti, marking the beginning of a United Nations-backed mission to combat powerful armed gangs that have wreaked turmoil in the Caribbean country….
Kenyan President William Ruto holds ceremonial goodbye for 400 troops set to depart on UN-backed mission. A contingent of Kenyan police is set to depart for a controversial mission in Haiti to combat the influence of powerful criminal gangs that have brought turmoil and violence to the Caribbean nation. Kenyan…
The newly installed government in Haiti has announced the replacement of the head of the beleaguered national police force, in the latest effort to respond to gang violence in the crisis-wracked country. Police chief Frantz Elbe will be replaced with former chief Rameau Normil, the prime minister’s office has confirmed….
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