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When armed gangs shattered four months of relative calm in Haiti’s Lower Artibonite region last month, the violence didn’t just claim lives. It also added to the pressures of an already strained humanitarian system. The attacks, along with the ongoing violence in the Center and West regions forced another 20,000 people to flee their homes. Many, according to the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration, were fleeing for the second time. “Clearly the situation in the Artibonite, and in Port-au-Prince, remains very volatile,” said Grégoire Goodstein, the organization’s chief of mission for Haiti, where the U.N. agency tracks the internally displaced and provides emergency aid.

At least 30 people are dead, many of them school-age children as young as 12, after a gathering advertised on TikTok turned tragic on Saturday at Haiti’s premier mountaintop fortress. The deaths were confirmed by Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who told the Miami Herald “the government is mobilizing” the ministry of health, justices of the peace to respond to the tragedy. The deaths occurred at the historic Citadelle Laferrière fortress in the town of Milot when heavy rains sent the children into a panic, triggering a stampede around 4 p.m.

D’après le directeur du bureau de la protection civile pour le nord d’Haïti, le bilan pourrait encore s’alourdir en raison du grand nombre de personnes portées disparues.

Un rapport des Nations unies affirme que quatre cas de viol impliquant des membres de la force multinationale déployée en Haïti sous direction kényane ont été corroborés, dont un impliquant une fillette de 12 ans. Le Kenya conteste ces conclusions. La question des violences sexuelles impliquant des forces étrangères en Haïti est au centre de l’actualité internationale.

“We acted illegally against a power that was in place illegally.” During more than three days of testimony in a federal trial in Miami, former senator Joseph Joël John details efforts to depose Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.