Haiti
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PublishedApril 11, 2024
A journalist. An army sergeant. An 80-year-old patient. Haitian human rights group details gang toll
A Haitian human rights group has released a new report that details the horrific violence unleashed this year by gangs amid a political vacuum.
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PublishedMarch 27, 2024
Haiti’s transitional council signals its creation is nearly complete
The council members pledged to 'execute a clear action plan aimed at restoring public and democratic order.'
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PublishedMarch 23, 2024
For Haitian diaspora, gang violence back home is personal as hopes dim for eventual return
Haitian Bridge Alliance has been contacting immigrants in the United States and Canada and finding many have family trapped in gang warfare, said Guerline Jozef, the advocacy group’s executive director.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2024
Looting is on the rise in Haiti. Among the victims: UNICEF and Guatemala’s consul
Looting and overall violence has further cut some of the country's most vulnerable from basic supplies.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2024
Plan to install new leaders in Haiti appears to crumble after political parties reject it
The Caribbean country has been overrun by gangs. The violence has closed schools and businesses and disrupted daily life across Haiti.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2024
Haiti is preparing for new leadership. Gangs want a seat at the table.
Gangs have deep ties to Haiti’s political and economic elite, but they have become more independent, financing their operations with kidnapping ransoms to buy smuggled weapons.
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PublishedMarch 11, 2024
U.S. pledges an additional $100 million for multinational force awaiting deployment to violence-hit Haiti
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Monday with Caribbean leaders in Jamaica to try to halt the country’s violent crisis.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2024
U.S. flies forces in to beef up security at embassy in Haiti and evacuate nonessential personnel
Haiti's prime minister, Ariel Henry, traveled to Kenya to push for the U.N.-backed deployment of a police force from the East African country to fight the gangs. But a Kenyan court ruled such a deployment would be unconstitutional.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2024
Hundreds of inmates flee after armed gangs storm Haiti’s main prison, leaving bodies behind
Arnel Remy, a human rights attorney whose nonprofit works inside the prison, said on X, formerly Twitter, that fewer than 100 of the nearly 4,000 inmates remained behind bars.
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2024
Freeport man feels vindicated after Haitian orphanage founder charged with sexually abusing minors
Paul Kendrick had accused Michael Karl Geilenfeld of being a serial pedophile. Geilenfeld twice sued Kendrick for defamation and legal cases have persisted for more than a decade.
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