UN Security Council pressures Haiti’s leaders to hold general election as deadline nears

U.N. Security Council members have warned Haiti’s leaders that time is running out to restore security and hold general ...

U.S., UN sanction former head of Haiti presidential guard, Bel Air gang leader

A former top cop in Haiti’s presidential palace, who has been accused in the 2021 slaying of the country’s president, has ...

US sanctions former Haitian security head, gang leader for aiding gang coalition

The U.S. Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on the former head of Haitian presidential security when the leader of the ...
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Gangs attack Haiti's national palace in Port-au-Prince: Source

The capitol building of Haiti. Where the president lived. Taken in May of 2009 while visiting a couple missionaries near Port-au-Prince. As of January 2010 an earthquake in Haiti has completely ...

Haiti gang warfare stalls long-awaited elections

Haiti will not hold a general election before the end of the current interim government's mandate next February, the head of the country's electoral council told Reuters on Wednesday, as the expansion ...

Hail of gunfire interrupts key meeting of Haiti's leaders trying to fend off gangs

Gunfire has erupted in downtown Port-au-Prince after Haiti’s leaders made the rare and defiant decision to meet at the ...
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Haitian gang attacks town, kills teacher, kidnaps residents and burns buildings

People displaced by gang violence spend time at a makeshift shelter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A Haitian gang attacked a ...
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Haiti: new ‘suppression force’ for Haiti amid gang violence

On 30 September, the Security Council authorized a new multinational Gang Suppression Force (GSF) in Haiti to replace the Kenyan-led security support mission, amid escalating gang violence, widespread ...
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Official says gangs killed dozens in small fishing village in Haiti’s latest massacre

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dozens of people were killed in a fishing village north of Haiti’s capital in the latest massacre carried out by powerful gangs in the troubled Caribbean country, an ...

UN, US slap sanctions on Haiti gang leader and ex-security chief

The United Nations and U.S. on Friday announced fresh sanctions on a former Haitian palace security chief and the leader of a downtown Port-au-Prince gang, as the U.N. Security Council voted ...
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UN Security Council approves larger international force to combat gangs in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Radios across Haiti were abuzz on Wednesday with the news that the U.N. Security Council had approved the creation of a so-called gang suppression force to help the ...
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Haitian gang attacks town, kills teacher, kidnaps residents and burns buildings

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A Haitian gang attacked a small town northwest of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, killing, kidnapping and burning down buildings as gang violence devours the Caribbean ...