AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in to serve a third term despite credible evidence that his opponent won the ...
Kenya deploys 217 more police officers to Haiti under UN-backed mission to tackle gang violence
Kenya’s interior minister says the east African nation has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti as part of a Kenya-led multinational force to curb gang violence.
Journalists in Haiti demand justice as they bury a second colleague killed by gangs
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The young boy wore a suit and bow tie to his stepfather’s funeral on Saturday, where he demanded a ...
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Gang violence killed more than 5,600 people in Haiti in 2024: UN
Armed gangs maintain control of most of the capital Port-au-Prince following an outbreak ... The Haitian government, backed by the US and by other Caribbean nations, has also been calling for ...
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More Kenyan Police Arrive in Haiti to Boost Mission Against Gang Violence
Kenya has deployed 217 more police officers to Haiti to provide backup to an understaffed security mission in the Caribbean country where spiralling gang violence has displaced more than a million ...
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UN migration agency says gang violence in Haiti leads to tripling of internally displaced people
Both countries share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Okoth said that the number of displacement sites in Port-au-Prince has risen from 73 to 108 over the last year. The outgoing administration ...
Haiti gang violence: Central American military police arrive to support govt efforts in Caribbean island
Haiti has been grappling with escalating gang violence, particularly since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
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New contingent on Kenyan police officers arrive in Haiti
They are being deployed to the Caribbean country to provide back-up to an understaffed international security mission.
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Why airlines see Haiti in the same ‘war-risk’ level as areas where pilots dodge missiles
The FAA ban on flying to Port-au-Prince was extended until at least ... Barbados Foreign Minister Kerrie Symmonds told Barbados Today the Caribbean nation would no longer deploy its troops to ...
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A survivor of the worst gang attack on Haitian journalists says colleagues were cut down by bullets
Two reporters and one police officer died in Tuesday's attack at the reopening of Port-au-Prince's biggest public hospital. Seven journalists covering the event were wounded. “Some were hit in ...
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Haiti's health minister loses his job after a deadly gang attack on a hospital in the capital
Gangs are believed to control 85% of Port-au-Prince. The Caribbean country has struggled to organize an election that will restore democratic rule, and is currently governed by a transitional ...
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To cover Haiti, our photographer had to face the dangers of getting there and the horrors he found
(Earlier this week, two reporters and a police officer were killed after suspected gang members attacked as journalists were covering the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital.) ...