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Haiti gang violence claims 5,000 lives in less than a year, UN report
Almost 5,000 people have been killed in Haiti since October 2024, displacing hundreds of thousands as gang violence has ...
Haiti's historic Grand Hôtel Oloffson reduced to ashes by gang violence
Haiti 's once-illustrious Grand Hôtel Oloffson, a beloved Gothic gingerbread home that inspired books, hosted parties until ...
A Hotel Made Famous by Graham Greene Is a Victim of Haiti’s Violence
Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that ...
Vigilantes once fought Haiti’s gangs. Now it’s hard to tell them apart.
Arnold Junior Pierre, a journalist for Radio Galaxie, was on his way to the station in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince ...
United Nations imposes sanctions on more gangs in Haiti amid growing violence
Attacks last week in the Central Plateau displaced more than 16,000 more people, the U.N. said, warning that, along with ...
Al Jazeera on MSN1d
Haiti death toll hits nearly 5,000 in nine months as gang violence spreads
The United Nations has appealed to the international community to bolster its support for Haiti after a report revealed that gang violence has claimed 4,864 lives from October to June.
Haiti gangs’ expansion, human-rights violations, threaten whole Caribbean, UN warns
If the government doesn’t put its head together to push back the gangs, they will head toward Belladère and then we will be at war because the Dominicans will never accept this.” ...
UN warns spreading gang violence poses major risk to Haiti and wider Caribbean
A new human rights report Friday warned that escalating gang violence outside the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has ...
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Historic hotel, symbol of Haiti’s past, burns amid gang violence
The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Harold Isaac, a reporter based in Port-au-Prince, about the iconic Hotel Oloffson ...