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Groups of Haitian vigilantes fighting gangs are allegedly committing the same abuses they are claiming to fight against, ...
La Chapelle, a commune in Haiti’s Artibonite Department, is the latest town falling under the control of violent armed gangs.
Eight people, including three children, died in a Gonaïves tanker explosion on June 25. The crash, which resulted from a ...
Gangs have attacked another town in Haiti’s central region, killing at least four people, including an 11-year-old child, a human rights activist told The Associated Press on Monday.. At least ...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres challenged the Trump administration's assessment that Haiti's situation has improved enough to allow the return of TPS holders whose status has been revoked ...
Gang violence across Artibonite, which produces much of Haiti’s food, has increased in recent years. In January 2023, Gran Grif was accused of attacking a police station in Liancourt, near Pont ...
Violence against children in Haiti increased by nearly 500% last year, according to a United Nations report, ranking the Caribbean nation as dangerous a place for children war-torn Gaza, the ...
A day after the attack, officials replaced the police commissioner who oversees the Artibonite region, which has seen a surge of gang violence in recent years, with at least 20 criminal groups ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Gang members brandishing automatic rifles stormed through a town in Haiti's main breadbasket region, killing at least 70 and forcing over 6,000 to flee, causing ...
An aerial view of Haiti's Artibonite department, north of Port-au-Prince, on Sept. 11, 2023. The agricultural region has increasingly been terrorized by gang violence that is metastasizing from ...