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6 days ago | 
dukecountry.fm | Sarah Morland |Harold Isaac
By Sarah Morland and Harold IsaacPORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The designation of Haiti’s major gangs as terrorists by Washington could risk further entrenching their power by limiting financial and humanitarian aid, NGOs focused on organized crime and human rights have warned.
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6 days ago | 
reuters.com | Sarah Morland |Harold Isaac
Members of the Haitian Armed Forces patrol the area as people flee homes following the armed gangs violence over the weekend, many grouped behind an alliance known as Viv Ansanm, at the Poste Marchand suburb, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti December 9, 2024.
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6 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Sarah Morland |Harold Isaac
By Sarah Morland and Harold IsaacPORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The designation of Haiti's major gangs as terrorists by Washington could risk further entrenching their power by limiting financial and humanitarian aid, NGOs focused on organized crime and human rights have warned.
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1 month ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Harold Isaac
26 March 2025 - 07:48 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Kenyan police officers are part of a UN-backed peacekeeping mission in Haiti. An officer from the Kenyan multinational security support (MSS) mission went missing in Haiti on Tuesday after an incident involving gangs, the MSS said.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Harold Isaac |Sarah Morland |David Adams
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReutersArmed men set fire to a building in Haiti’s capital that had long served as headquarters for the nation’s oldest radio station, as an alliance of gangs continues to grow its power despite efforts by local security forces. Videos shared on social media on Thursday showed the multi-story building in downtown Port-au-Prince charred after the attack. Radio Television Caraibes abandoned the building a year ago after gangs moved into the area.
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2 months ago | 
timeslive.co.za | Harold Isaac
A Kenyan police officer was killed on Sunday in Haiti north of the capital Port-au-Prince, the first casualty since the Kenyan-led security mission arrived in the Caribbean country in June 2024, the mission's authorities said. The Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti said on Sunday the Kenyan officer was injured during an operation in the Artibonite department and airlifted to a hospital, where he died.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
timeslive.co.za | Harold Isaac
Kenya sent more than 200 police officers to Haiti on Saturday, providing backup to an understaffed security mission in the Caribbean country where rampant gang violence has displaced more than a million people. Some 10 countries have together pledged more than 3,100 troops for Haiti as part of a UN-backed anti-gang force, but few have so far deployed. Kenya's interior minister Kipchumba Murkomen said the new group comprised 217 police officers who would join about 400 officers sent last year.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
perthnow.com.au | Ralph Tedy Erol |Steven Aristil |Harold Isaac
At least two people were killed and others injured when armed men opened fire on a group of journalists gathered at a press conference set to announce the reopening of Haiti's largest public hospital. A reporter and a police officer were killed, said a journalist at the scene who asked not to be named.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
jp.reuters.com | Harold Isaac
１２月９日、カリブ海の島国ハイチの首相府は、首都ポルトープランスのスラム街シテ・ソレイユで週末に起きたギャングによる虐殺事件で約１８０人が犠牲になったと発表した。写真は、現場を巡回する兵士ら。同日、ポルトープランスで撮影（２０２４年 ロイター/Ralph Tedy Erol） [９日 ロイター] - カリブ海の島国ハイチの首相府は９日、首都ポルトープランスのスラム街シテ・ソレイユで週末に起きたギャングによる虐殺事件で約１８０人が犠牲になったと発表した。殺害された人の多くは高齢者だったという。 首相府は声明で「レッドライン（越えてはならない一線）を越えた」と指摘。虐殺を計画したとするギャングのリーダーを含む責任者を「追跡し、全滅させるためにあらゆる力を動員する」とした。 現地の非政府組織（ＮＧＯ）「ハイチ国民人権擁護ネットワーク（ＲＮＤＤＨ）」は８日、この事件では６日から７日にかけて少なくとも１１０人がギャングに殺害されたと発表。ギャングのリーダーは自分の子どもが高齢住民の呪術のせいで病気になったとブードゥー教の司祭に言われ、住民らの虐殺を仲間に命じたという。 もっと見る...
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
reuters.com | Harold Isaac
9 dic (Reuters) - La cifra de muertos el fin de semana en la zona de Cité Soleil subió a 180, informó el lunes la oficina del primer ministro de Haití, en unos ataques que, según una ONG, fueron ordenados por el líder de una banda que sospechaba que su hijo había enfermado mediante brujería.
