Tag: PortauPrince
More than 53,000 people have fled gang violence in Port-au-Prince
They fled the violence and poverty that plague Port-au-Prince. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 53,000 Haitians left the capital between March 8 and 27 to…
heavy gunfire heard near the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince
Police patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince. RALPH TEDY EROL / REUTERS Armed gangs attempted during the night from Friday to Saturday to take control of police buildings in the capital.…
around ten deaths during the escape of thousands of detainees in Port-au-Prince
This AFP-TV screenshot shows a person waving from a cell at the main prison in Port-au-Prince on March 3, 2024, after the escape of several thousand inmates. LUCKENSON JEAN /…
Video: Haiti: Residents of Port-au-Prince flee gang violence
Many are forced out of the Carrefour Feuilles neighborhood by criminals. The people there and elsewhere no longer want to accept the threats and the killings. They turn to the…
30 dead in gang attacks on a Port-au-Prince neighborhood
Mortuary workers carry a body in the Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. August 15, 2023. ODELYN JOSEPH / AP The repeated assaults of a gang against the inhabitants of a…
Six policemen killed by gangs, protests in Port-au-Prince
Six police officers were killed Wednesday in the north of Haiti during the attack on a police station by gang members, authorities said, a new act of violence at the…
At least 234 dead or injured in Cité Soleil, near Port-au-Prince, between July 8 and 12, according to the UN
At least 234 people were killed or injured between July 8 and July 12, victims of gang violence in Cité Soleil, the most disadvantaged commune in the agglomeration of Port-au-Prince,…
At least 89 dead in one week in violence in Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince sinks into violence. At least 89 people have been killed in a week in where prices are soaring and fuel shortages are getting worse and worse, threatening the humanitarian…
A Frenchman kidnapped Friday in Port-au-Prince
A French citizen was kidnapped Friday in Port-au-Prince, said Saturday the spokesperson for the national police of Haiti, a country where kidnappings by gang members have become daily. “The police…
Haitian voluntary migrants repatriated to Port-au-Prince
Some 70 Haitian migrants returned to their country on Wednesday from Mexico. 41 men, 16 women and 13 children left Villahermosa, in the state of Tabasco (south-east) for Port-au-Prince. Their…