After being held hostage for 37 days by a gang, two people with a U.S. Christian aid group have been released in Port-au-Prince and are described as “safe.” Full article via NYT...
Haiti is sliding deeper into chaos, as mass kidnappings escalate and gangs become powerful enough to blackmail the government and choke the impoverished nation’s struggling economy. Read More via WSJ...
It has now been nearly one month since a group of 17 missionaries, 16 Americans and one Canadian were kidnapped in Haiti during a trip to visit an orphanage. Read More via SPECTRUM NEWS ...
Amid a deepening political crisis and a severe fuel shortage that has impacted hospitals, schools and businesses in Haiti, the United States is urging American citizens to leave the Caribbean nation. Read more via Aljazeera...
The Biden administration is urging U.S. citizens in Haiti “to strongly consider returning to the United States” amid a gang-aggravated fuel shortage and a deteriorating security climate in which 17 Christian missionaries, including 16 Americans, have been held hostage more than three weeks. Read more at...
The White House said Tuesday that President Joe Biden is directly engaged in an effort to rescue 17 missionaries, including five children, being held hostage by a gang in Haiti since they were kidnapped 11 days ago, and that “every possible option” is on the...
Some 165 gang factions operate in Port-au-Prince, the epicenter of Haiti’s crime wave. This year, gangs conducted at least 628 abductions — more than a threefold increase from last year’s total. Today, collusion between armed groups and political elites and the Haitian police's shortfalls have allowed...
Haiti is in the midst of an acute fuel crisis linked to surging insecurity: fuel deliveries have been interrupted for over two weeks by gang blockades and abductions of fuel truck drivers. Drivers responded with a strike last week, protesting insecurity, and angry motorcyclists locked...
Criminal rings, like the one that kidnapped American missionaries, control as much as two-thirds of Haiti, a lawless scenario that threatens regional stability Via WSJ Gangs Threaten to Tip Haiti Into a Failed State ...
With an aim to generate recommendations to shift U.S. policy toward Haiti, scholars, community leaders, and advocates of the beleaguered nation convened for a virtual conference organized by University of Miami centers and institutes and other partners. Via News@theU (U of Miami) Conference addresses misconceptions, proposes new...