Haiti

Life after 'Storm of the Century': Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba scan what's left as Melissa retreats

The rumble of large machinery, whine of chain saws and chopping of machetes echoed through communities across the northern Caribbean on Thursday as they dug out from the destruction of Hurricane Melissa and surveyed the damage left behind.

Irish missionary among 9 kidnapped from a Haitian orphanage

The victims were taken from the Sainte-Helene orphanage in the commune of Kenscoff, about 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) southeast of the capital

Haiti gang violence: Kenya to send 200 more police officers to bolster its forces in island nation

The 217 officers will reinforce the first batch of 400 officers who were deployed last year to the Caribbean nation to restore peace. Gang violence killed at least 5,601 people in Haiti in 2024

Haiti gang violence: Central American military police arrive to support govt efforts in Caribbean island

Haiti has been grappling with escalating gang violence, particularly since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise. Gangs are estimated to control roughly 85 per cent of the capital, launching coordinated attacks on prisons, and police stations

Haiti hospital attacked by armed men, four operating rooms destroyed

The U.N. humanitarian affairs agency warned earlier this year that Haiti's health system was 'nearing collapse,' with violence increasingly putting doctors and medical services in harm's way

Gang leader orchestrates massacre of voodoo practitioners, elderly in Haiti; UN calls for international support

The killings in the capital Port-au-Prince were overseen by a powerful gang leader convinced that his son's illness was caused by followers of the religion, according to civil organization the Committee for Peace and Development

'Total morons': Here's why France's Macron lashed out at Haitians, and what he forgot

Macron's remarks appear to come from a highground that his country's colonial past with Haiti ill-affords. 

Haiti: 2 killed, thousands flee capital as ‘Living Together’ gang coalition intensifies attacks

Two women were killed in attacks carried out by Haitian gang coalition. More than 700,000 people, half of them children, have been forced to flee their homes.

Food for arms: Rights group finds Haitian gangs luring starving kids, up to 30% recruits are children

A report by Human Rights Watch has found that gang members lure children with food into exploiting them. At home, they had to sleep with empty stomachs, but being part of criminal gangs put food in their mouth which compelled parents to allow their kids to join

Haitian gang kills 70 people, 6,000 flee amid widespread violence

The gang members set fire to dozens of homes and vehicles, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years in the Caribbean nation that has seen many massacres and little justice for their victims