Violent gangs control most of the Caribbean country’s capital, Port-au-Prince. More than 5,600 people were killed and thousands more injured or kidnapped in 2024 due to soaring levels of gang violence ...

Soaring gang violence in Haiti left over 5,600 people dead last year -- over 1,000 more than in 2023 -- while thousands more were injured or kidnapped, the United Nations said Tuesday. Violent gangs ...

Despite a Kenyan-led police support mission, backed by the US and UN, violence has continued to burgeon with over 1,000 more ...

At least 207 people were killed by members of the Wharf Jeremie gang in Haiti's portside neighborhood of Cite Soleil earlier ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A new United Nations (UN) report says a little over two weeks after a surge of violence in the Cité ...

Scores of people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cité Soleil area, Haiti's prime minister's office said on Monday, after attacks that the state and two non-governmental groups allege ...

Densely populated Cite Soleil is among the poorest and most violent areas of Haiti. Tight gang control, including the restriction of mobile phone use, has limited residents’ ability to share ...

Haiti govt says around 180 killed in Cite Soleil, most elderly NGO says gang leader ordered massacre over witchcraft fears International security support continues to lag Gangs have killed around ...

At least 207 people were killed by members of the Wharf Jeremie gang in Haiti's portside neighborhood of Cite Soleil earlier this month, the United Nations said in a report on Monday, revising a ...

Furthermore, the Portuguese Socialist leader pressed Haiti's government to speed up ... and machetes between Thursday and Saturday in Cité Soleil by a criminal gang after its leader, alias ...

Haiti's government in a statement Monday acknowledged the massacre, saying over 180 were killed in the Cite Soleil neighborhood, and promised to bring to justice those responsible for "this ...

In a new report on the massacre, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said at least 134 men and 73 women, most of them elderly residents accused of witchcraft, were killed in less ...