Following a series of brutal altercations in the communes of Mirebalais and Saut d’Eau in Haiti back in late March, local ...

A rebooted effort in Haiti to disarm the country’s criminal gangs and reintegrate child soldiers into society is getting put ...

Espérance, the director of a human rights organization, wrote from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Almost every night ... government officials have paid off and armed gang members in exchange for ...

The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti faces severe political instability, with swaths of the country under the control of rival armed gangs who carry out widespread murders ...

The designation of Haiti's major gangs as terrorists by Washington could risk further entrenching their power by limiting ...

May 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department on Friday designated two powerful Haitian gangs as terrorist groups. The agency ...

Adams from Florida. A powerful alliance of armed gangs that has plunged Haiti into violence and launched attacks against state institutions was designated on Friday as a terrorist group by the ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Haiti’s government ... s crisis as gang violence surges. Nearly 40% of the money will go toward Haiti’s police and military “to fight the armed groups that threaten ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Gangs trying to seize full control of Haiti 's capital have killed at least four soldiers and four armed civilians who worked with law enforcement to protect their ...

Haiti Gangs ... who engage with gangs to deliver aid to communities under gang control - potentially cutting off aid and making populations even more dependent on the armed groups.