Haitian gangs’ growing funds, arsenals challenge planned intervention – report
Reuters Haitian gangs are increasingly economically autonomous, a Geneva-based criminal research group warned, using funds coerced from private businesses, local residents and families of kidnapping victims to pay for guns and soldiers. “Gangs have undergone a radical evolution, going from rather unstructured actors dependent on resources provided by public or private patronage to violent entrepreneurs,” […]
Haitian gang violence intensifies in capital, forcing hospital evacuation
Port-au-PrinceReuters 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 Port-au-Prince’s gritty Cite Soleil neighbourhood, rushed patients out as gunshots rang out […]
Postcards: Haiti hospital cares for kids amid gang violence, hunger and scarce aid
OCTAVIO JONES and HAROLD ISAAC, of Reuters, report from Port-au-Prince…
Haiti gang blockade is causing catastrophic hunger, UN officials say
Miami, USReuters Haitians are experiencing catastrophic hunger because of gangsters blockading a major fuel terminal, UN officials said on Friday, with more than four million facing acute food insecurity. A coalition of gangs has prevented the distribution of diesel and gasoline for over a month to protest a plan to cut fuel subsidies. Most transport […]
Haiti gangs wage battles in downtown Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters Haitian gangs waged intense gun battles on Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, shuttering main avenues and a municipal market in the downtown area of the capital. One video filmed downtown showed men running toward police with their hands in the air as gunshots rang out, in a new outbreak of violence following gang clashes this […]
Gang violence traps thousands in town near Haiti’s capital
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Gun battles between rival Haitian gangs near the capital Port-au-Prince have left thousands trapped in a small coastal town without access to water, food or medical care, a local pastor and a foreign aid group said on Tuesday. More than 50 people have been killed since Friday in the town of Cite […]