Soldiers from El Salvador arrive in Haiti to help fight gangs | AP …
1 day ago · PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A military contingent from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people last year and control much of the capital.. The 70 soldiers will provide expertise in air support, which Kenyan officials said will be critical for medical evacuations.
US has frozen funding for the UN-backed mission to quell gangs in Haiti …
1 day ago · The mission works alongside Haiti’s National Police, which is severely underfunded and understaffed and has received millions of dollars from the U.S. government in recent years to help fight gangs. Currently, there are only about 4,000 Haitian police officers on duty at a time in a country of more than 11 million people.
Who are Haiti’s gangs and what do they want? All you need to …
Mar 13, 2024 · There are believed to be about 200 armed gangs operating in Haiti, about half of which have a presence in Port-au-Prince. In the capital, there are two major gang coalitions.
Gangs attack a neighborhood in Haiti that's home to the …
2 days ago · PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that's home to most of the country's elite and had been largely untouched by criminals, and police have demanded ...
Gang war in Haiti - Wikipedia
By 2022, researchers estimated that about 200 gangs operated across Haiti. Of these, half were located in Port-au-Prince. The more influential gangs control large swathes of territory, including entire municipalities and communes. [49]
Haiti gangs: The spiralling power of criminal groups - BBC
Mar 4, 2024 · Here we take a closer look at how gangs have come to dominate huge swathes of the capital and, increasingly, of rural areas of this Caribbean country. Armed groups have long played a bloody...
Who Are the Gangs That Have Overrun Haiti’s Capital? - The New York Times
Mar 7, 2024 · Haiti, a Caribbean nation with a long history of upheaval, is enduring one of its worst periods of chaos. Gangs have shut down the airport; looted seaports, public buildings and shops; and...
Why is Haiti so chaotic? Leaders used street gangs to gain power.
Mar 12, 2024 · Internationally, Cherizier is known as Haiti’s most powerful and feared gang leader, sanctioned by the United Nations for “serious human rights abuses,” and the man behind a fuel blockade that brought the Caribbean nation to its knees in late 2022.
Haiti gangs: More than 50,000 flee capital after surge in violence - BBC
Apr 3, 2024 · Tens of thousands of people have fled the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, to escape a surge in gang violence over the past weeks. UN figures suggest more than 53,000 left the city of 3m...
Gang violence is tearing Haiti apart. Here’s what to know
Aug 2, 2023 · Over the past two years, warring gangs in Port-au-Prince have visited terror upon the country’s vital port city with rape, torture and killing as they vie for territorial control....