A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti’s capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in his community to avenge his son's death.
Overall, more than 4,500 people were reported killed in Haiti so far this year, the U.N. said. Jimmy Chérizier, a former elite police officer who became a gang leader known as Barbecue, warned that a gang coalition known as Viv Ansanm will keep attacking as...
“These figures alone cannot capture the absolute horrors being perpetrated in Haiti but they show the unremitting violence to which people are being subjected,” said Türk. In one of the most deadly and shocking incidents in 2024, at least 207 people were killed in early December...
In an audio message shared on Thursday, Gran Grif leader Luckson Elan, who was sanctioned by the UN last month, blamed the state and victims for the attacks, accusing residents of remaining passive as his soldiers were killed by police or vigilante groups. "It's Pont-Sonde residents who ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - An increase in gang violence in Haiti's capital this week following the death of a powerful gang leader has led to ongoing gun battles that forced a hospital to evacuate all patients on Wednesday. Workers at the Centre Hospitalier Fontaine, located in P...
One voluntary prison worker on Sunday said 99 prisoners had chosen to stay in their cells for fear of being killed in the crossfire. 'One word we can use to describe the situation in Haiti is, nightmare.' The bodies of three inmates who had tried to fleelay dead in...
Former police officer Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier, leader of the 'G9' gang alliance, is flanked by gang members after a press conference in Delmas 6, Port-au-Prince, Haiti March 5, 2024.Ralph Tedy Erol / REUTERS As the latest crisis in the violence-wracked Caribbean nation spiraled, gunf...
[03:04.48]to flights to and from Haiti. [03:08.72]On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken [03:11.40]said the new council would be responsible [03:14.68]for meeting the "immediate needs" of Haitians. [03:19.4...
Haiti is once again experiencing an increase in gang-related kidnappings that had declined in recent months following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, who was fatally shot at his private residence on July 7, and a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 2,200 people in Aug...
Across the city in Carrefour Feuilles, an alleged gang leader on Tuesday rallied supporters in a bid to retake control of the zone after heavy fighting forced thousands from their homes last August. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced within Haiti and thousands killed amid wi...