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US jury convicts once powerful Haitian gang leader in kidnapping of US missionaries
A U.S. jury has found a once powerful Haitian gang leader guilty of organizing the kidnapping of 16 U.S. citizens in 2021 and holding them hostage for more than two months. Germine Joly once led the ...
Haiti’s oil industry caught between U.S. terrorist label, gangs’ enforced tolls
Haiti’s major gangs, which made their debut as an allied force last year, run various extortion rackets, which are used to buy illegal weapons and ammunition and pay their members, as well as ...
WFMZ-TV3d
US designates Haitian gangs as a foreign terror organization as experts warn of impact on aid
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. on Friday officially designated a powerful gang coalition in Haiti as a foreign terrorist organization ... consequences (of the designation) will be ...
Mission Network News8d
Gang activity in Haiti intensifies the country’s need
The US has designated two Haitian gangs as terrorist groups, deeming them a threat to national security and warning of ...
The American Conservative11d
U.S. Designates Haitian Gangs as Terrorist Organizations
The move allows the U.S. to apply steep penalties to almost any activity in the gang-dominated country.
Inter Press Service12d
Armed Gangs Expand Their Control in the Centre Department of Haiti
Following a series of brutal altercations in the communes of Mirebalais and Saut d’Eau in Haiti back in late March, local gangs have taken over both communes, spurring heightened displacement and ...
Haiti gangs' US terrorism designation risks harming most vulnerable, NGOs warn
The designation of Haiti's major gangs as terrorists by Washington could risk further entrenching their power by limiting ...
The Jamaica Observer17d
Group calls on US to reverse designation of Haitian gangs
SAN DIEGO, United States ... Haitian gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTOs). Last Friday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the State Department’s designation of Viv Ansanm ...
Homeland Security Today17d
U.S. Designates Two Haitian Gangs as Terrorist Groups
The Department of State has announced the designation of Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs ... in property of those designated today that are in the United States or ...
AOL17d
Rubio designates Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations
(The Center Square) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has designated two Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist ... from the ...
The Straits Times19d
US designates powerful Haiti gang alliance as transnational terrorist group
The United States ... Haiti's powerful Viv Ansanm gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital Port-au-Prince and spread to surrounding areas, a "transnational ...
Fox News19d
Trump administration takes hard line on Haitian violence, labels gangs foreign terrorist organizations
The Trump administration on Friday officially designated two of Haiti’s most powerful gang networks, Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif, foreign terrorist ... The designations bring serious legal ...