Several alleged gang members were killed in Haiti on Friday during intensified security operations in the eastern plains of Port-au-Prince, where police successfully recovered a high-powered sniper rifle known as a “weapon of war” but were forced to destroy a helicopter used in their operations.
La dernière ronde des éliminatoires de la Concacaf pour la Coupe du Monde de la FIFA 2026 s’est poursuivie avec une victoire de 1-0 sur Haïti contre le Costa Rica dans le Groupe C, jeudi, au Stadion Ergilio Hato de Willemstad, Curaçao.
Gang violence continues to be responsible for hundreds of deaths and injuries in Haiti, where attacks by criminal groups have slowed in recent months in the capital but have intensified against farming communities and other rural areas outside of Port-au-Prince.
For the past four years, since the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021, Haiti has been slipping ever deeper into chaos and anarchy. In January 2023, the terms of the country’s last ten sitting senators expired, leaving it with no nationally elected officials. In theory, Haiti is now run by a Transitional Presidential Council (tpc), an unelected body of politicians appointed by consensus in a process overseen by the Caribbean Community, an intergovernmental organisation.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met on Tuesday with Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who is on a weeklong visit to the United States seeking to shore up support for the volatile country.
State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said Rubio reaffirmed U.S. support for Haiti’s stability and security and welcomed “progress on the deployment” of a new anti-gang force supported by the U.S. and the United Nations.
“Secretary Rubio commended the prime minister’s leadership as security forces expand their presence and coordination,” Pigott said.
He added that Rubio also stressed the importance of improving security conditions to enable Haiti’s path to elections, while underscoring the administration’s support for a multiyear reauthorization of the congressional law known as HOPE/HELP, which has given Haiti’s factories duty-free access to the United States.
Plus de 80% des établissements scolaires sont privés en Haïti. Les écoles publiques sont souvent mal entretenues et manquent cruellement de moyens. Des centaines de milliers d'enfants ne sont pas scolarisés, ou doivent donc aller suivre des cours dans des bâtiments vétustes, parfois sans portes, ni chaises, ni bureaux, comme dans certaines écoles de la région de l'Artibonite.
Chad plans to send 1,500 personnel to Haiti, its presidential office said in a letter to lawmakers distributed on Monday, as part of its contribution to a U.N.-backed security force that aims to be 5,500-strong by this summer.
Le 11 avril 2026, au Togo, terre ancestrale d’Afrique de l’Ouest, une jeune Haïtienne de 18 ans, Ariana Milagro Lafond, a remporté le concours House of Challenge. Une victoire éclatante qui n’est pas seulement celle d’une artiste hors pair, mais celle d’un peuple, d’une mémoire, d’un lien viscéral qui unit Haïti à l’Afrique depuis la nuit des temps.
Une performance qui honore toute une nation