Haiti mayor appeals for government help after gang attack leaves 7 dead
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 in northwestern Haiti kill 12 people and damage hundreds of homes
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.
Match Haïti – République dominicaine : une rencontre aux nombreux enjeux,
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.
UN says Haiti powerful gang expansion halted but threat persists
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.
As gang violence surges, more Haitians are forced to flee their homes
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.