Haitian businessman Rodolphe “Dodof” Jaar provided more than $150,000 in cash and material support — including housing and semi-automatic weapons — to back the plot that ultimately led to the assassination of his country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, he told a Miami federal jury.
That support included $110,000 in bribes paid to members of the presidential security team —$80,000 to the General Security Unit of the National Palace and $30,000 to the Counter Assault Team — who were responsible for protecting Moïse on the night a squad of Colombian commandos stormed his residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince.
The mayor of a commune in southern Haiti appealed for central government help on Tuesday after a gang attack left seven people dead.
A police station in Seguin, in the commune of Marigot, was also set on fire in the incident overnight on Monday as armed men expand their reach into new territory.
Heavy rains over the past few days in northwestern Haiti have killed at least 12 people, flooded farmland and damaged hundreds of homes, authorities said Tuesday.
The rains flooded a local hospital and more than 900 homes. They also destroyed a bridge, dozens of roads and crops in a country where more than half of its nearly 12 million inhabitants face high levels of acute food insecurity.
Sur le terrain, l’enjeu est de taille. Les Grenadières réalisent un parcours sans faute dans ces éliminatoires de la zone CONCACAF pour la Coupe du monde féminine 2027 au Brésil. Le jeudi 9 avril dernier, elles ont largement dominé Anguilla (5-0), signant une troisième victoire consécutive et prenant la tête du groupe D.
La rencontre face à la République dominicaine s’annonce donc déterminante. Les deux équipes visent une qualification et joueront gros lors de ce duel au sommet.
Anti-gang operations in Haiti have slowed the expansion of powerful armed groups in Port-au-Prince, a UN expert report said Tuesday, though progress remains uneven. Authorities, backed by drone strikes and self-defence groups, have curbed advances, but gangs continue adapting amid a prolonged security crisis in the country.
Anti-gang operations in Haiti have halted the powerful armed groups' expansion in the capital, but progress remains uneven and they are adapting, a UN expert report said Tuesday.