The United States maintains its strong condemnation against ongoing gang violence aimed at destabilizing Haiti’s government ...

Gangs in Haiti have opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter, forcing it to land in Port-au-Prince in the latest attack in the ...

The attacks this week point to an escalation of violence as the situation worsens and gangs overwhelm security forces, ...

Haitian gangs reportedly struck two U.S. Embassy vehicles and a United Nations helicopter as gang violence escalates in ...

An ongoing escalation in gang attacks in Haiti’s capital is once more leading air carriers to suspend travel. On Friday, both ...

But a wave of gang violence in recent weeks, including an incident where a UN helicopter was shot at, has raised concerns ...

At least 70 people, including 10 women and three infants, were killed and 16 were injured after gangs armed with automatic rifles launched attacks on a town in Haiti’s breadbasket, torching ...

Gang violence, however, accounts for most of the hunger, with gangs controlling 80% of Port-au-Prince and the roads that lead to and from northern and southern Haiti, preventing farmers from ...

Relatives carry the coffin of Jean Louis Jeune Gracien, who was killed during an attack by armed gangs, at his funeral in Pont-Sonde, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph ...

Haiti has faced years of instability ... It created a power vacuum which increased the influence of armed gangs. It is estimated they now control up to 80 percent of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The attack is blamed on the Gran Grif gang, which operates in the central Artibonite region and is considered one of Haiti’s cruelest gangs.

Further reading: Missionaries become target of gangs battling for supremacy in Haiti Father Miraglio, parish priest of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the remote and mountainous village of Pourcine, ...