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Haiti protests over fuel shortages go on even as deliveries resume

Haiti Port au Prince burning tyres

Port-au-Prince Reuters Haitian demonstrators on Thursday burned tyres and blocked streets of the capital to protest ongoing fuel shortages even as the country’s main fuel terminal renewed deliveries that had been suspended due to an outbreak of gang violence.  Rights activists say nearly 90 people have been killed since a turf war broke out last […]

Haiti gangs raped women, burned people alive during turf wars – rights group

Haiti Port au Prince confiscated weapons

Port-aa-Prince, HaitiReuters Haitian gang members raped women and girls and burned people alive during two weeks of turf wars near the capital of Port-au-Prince, a Haitian rights group said in a report detailing the bloody conflict.  Battles between the rival Chen Mechan and 400 Mawozo gangs left 148 people dead, the National Human Rights Defense […]