Haitian Bridge Alliance has been contacting immigrants in the United States and Canada and finding many have family trapped in gang warfare, said Guerline Jozef, the advocacy group’s executive director.
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Looting is on the rise in Haiti. Among the victims: UNICEF and Guatemala’s consul
Looting and overall violence has further cut some of the country’s most vulnerable from basic supplies.
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Plan to install new leaders in Haiti appears to crumble after political parties reject it
The Caribbean country has been overrun by gangs. The violence has closed schools and businesses and disrupted daily life across Haiti.
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Haiti is preparing for new leadership. Gangs want a seat at the table.
Gangs have deep ties to Haiti’s political and economic elite, but they have become more independent, financing their operations with kidnapping ransoms to buy smuggled weapons.
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U.S. flies forces in to beef up security at embassy in Haiti and evacuate nonessential personnel
Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, traveled to Kenya to push for the U.N.-backed deployment of a police force from the East African country to fight the gangs. But a Kenyan court ruled such a deployment would be unconstitutional.
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Freeport man feels vindicated after Haitian orphanage founder charged with sexually abusing minors
Paul Kendrick had accused Michael Karl Geilenfeld of being a serial pedophile. Geilenfeld twice sued Kendrick for defamation and legal cases have persisted for more than a decade.
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A foreign armed force to fight gangs makes many in Haiti celebrate, while others worry
The United Nations Security Council has authorized a 1-year deployment of a Kenya-led force to help quell violent gangs.
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New Hampshire nurse and young daughter freed nearly 2 weeks after abduction in Haiti
The U.S. State Department welcomed the news that the 2 had been freed and thanked its Haitian and U.S. interagency partners for facilitating the release.