The latest local news from Port-au-Prince, in English.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres visited impoverished, politically unstable and gang-ruled Haiti on Tuesday. “The humanitarian situation is desperate, but there are fragile glimmers of hope,” Guterres wrote on X.
WorldNearly one and a half million people are displaced in increasingly violent Haiti, according to the UN migration agency, the IOM.
WorldSince Saturday, at least 78 people have been killed in fighting between two rival gangs in Haiti, the UN says.
WorldDoctors Without Borders is being forced to evacuate one of its hospitals in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince due to escalating violence.
WorldA jury in Florida, U.S., has convicted four people of involvement in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
World politicsAt least seven people were killed in an attack by armed gangs in Haiti.
WorldKenya has sent an additional 230 police officers to violence-ravaged Haiti, the government of the African country says.
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