Haiti

Gang leader orchestrates massacre of voodoo practitioners, elderly in Haiti; UN calls for international support

The killings in the capital Port-au-Prince were overseen by a powerful gang leader convinced that his son's illness was caused by followers of the religion, according to civil organization the Committee for Peace and Development

'Total morons': Here's why France's Macron lashed out at Haitians, and what he forgot

Macron's remarks appear to come from a highground that his country's colonial past with Haiti ill-affords. 

Haiti: 2 killed, thousands flee capital as ‘Living Together’ gang coalition intensifies attacks

Two women were killed in attacks carried out by Haitian gang coalition. More than 700,000 people, half of them children, have been forced to flee their homes.

Food for arms: Rights group finds Haitian gangs luring starving kids, up to 30% recruits are children

A report by Human Rights Watch has found that gang members lure children with food into exploiting them. At home, they had to sleep with empty stomachs, but being part of criminal gangs put food in their mouth which compelled parents to allow their kids to join

Haitian gang kills 70 people, 6,000 flee amid widespread violence

The gang members set fire to dozens of homes and vehicles, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years in the Caribbean nation that has seen many massacres and little justice for their victims

At least 70 killed in Haiti gang massacre, says UN 

Armed men belonging to the Gran Grif gang killed at least 70 people when they passed through a Haitian town with automatic rifles shooting at residents, a spokesperson for the United Nations' Human Rights Office said on Friday.

Haiti gang kills over 20, injures dozens during a raid in small town

Another 50 people were injured as the Gran Grif gang burned homes and cars in the town of Pont-Sondé, said Bertide Harace, spokeswoman for the Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness to Save the Artibonite

UN extends Kenya-led force to tackle gangs in Haiti, but sidelines call for UN peacekeepers

The UN Security Council voted unanimously Monday to extend the mandate of the Kenya-led multinational force helping to tackle gang violence in Haiti, after brushing off a call from Haiti to start talks on transforming it into a UN peacekeeping mission

UN rights expert warns of severe crisis in Haiti due to gang violence, food insecurity

The Haitian people are suffering gravely at the hands of powerful criminal gangs, while an international security force and local police are badly lacking resources to protect them, a top UN expert said Friday.

Without a president since 2021, Haiti forms council to hold first national election after a decade

The Caribbean nation is set to hold elections by 2026, a decade after they were last held in 2016