Violence in Haiti is escalating sharply, with gang activity reaching new levels across the country. According to a new report ...

Around December 11, for instance, the UN noted that the gangs killed more than 70 people near the town of Petite-Riviere de l’Artibonite, and vigilante groups killed 67 people, many of them assumed to ...

Haiti’s most powerful gang coalition and another criminal armed group operating in the country’s breadbasket have been added ...

The United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) and the UN Human Rights Office on Friday released a report detailing ...

Carlos Ruiz Massieu, a seasoned Mexican diplomat, was appointed on July 2 as head of the UN mission in Haiti amid a worsening ...

GENEVA/PORT-AU-PRINCE (11 July 2025) – Escalating gang violence outside Port-au-Prince has claimed over 1,000 lives and forced hundreds of thousands to flee since October 2024, threatening to ...

Senior U.N. officials warn that Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to ...

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.” ...

A new human rights report Friday warned that escalating gang violence outside the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, has ...

Right now we’re very much seeing the U.S. go through, in some ways, a bipolar approach to how it’s dealing with these global ...

The United Nations has been sounding the alarm about Haiti for months now, but countries are reluctant to intervene, given past failures in the Caribbean nation.

In effect, the United Nations faces two important tasks to address the outbreak, which has killed more than 8,000 people and sickened well over 600,000, and it has undertaken only one. To its ...