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Gangs control 80% of Port-au-Prince, and they are better equipped than Haiti’s National Police, brandishing assault rifles and showing off ammunition on social media that includes .50 caliber ...
Burnt-out vehicles are shown in front of the police station at Carrefour de l'Aeroport, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 5, 2024 after it was torched by armed individuals controlled by gang leader ...
On 2 and 3 March, armed gangs stormed the two largest prisons in Haiti, one in Croix des Bouquets, the other in Port-au-Prince. More than 4,700 inmates escaped. [10] Police were reported to be undermanned and outgunned by the gangs, with only 9,000 operating in Haiti at the time of the fighting. [13]
A teacher in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, says he constantly has to hide under his bed at home, when gangs infiltrate his once-peaceful neighborhood, Croix-des-Bouquets.
Operation Uphold Democracy was a multinational military intervention designed to remove the military regime led and installed by Raoul Cédras after the 1991 Haitian coup d'état overthrew the elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The operation was effectively authorized by the 31 July 1994 United Nations Security Council Resolution 940 .
March 5, 2024 at 7:12 PM. By Steven Aristil and Harold Isaac. PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry landed in Puerto Rico on Tuesday, as questions as to why he had not ...
Gangs have long haunted the residents of Port-au-Prince, but their reach has dramatically expanded over recent years, covering 80% of the city today, according to UN estimates.
At least 21 killed. The 1991 Haitian coup d'état took place on 29 September 1991, when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, elected eight months earlier in the 1990–91 Haitian general election, was deposed by the Armed Forces of Haiti. Haitian military officers, primarily Army General Raoul Cédras, Army Chief of Staff Philippe Biamby and Chief ...