Chronic instability, brutal dictatorships and natural disasters in recent decades have left Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas. Nearly 60% of the population ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Haiti will name entrepreneur and former senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime to replace Prime Minister Garry Conille, who was tapped for the role in May, according to a ...

A new wave of gang violence is hitting Haiti, and Haitian officials are pleading with international allies for more help. But more support for the country’s embattled police forces doesn’t ...

Armored vehicles used by Kenyan police rumble through the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The vehicles are part of the United States’ more than $300 million in contributions to the U.N.-backed ...

Haiti is fast descending into anarchy. Over the weekend, the violence in the capital Port-au-Prince ramped up once again. Heavily armed gangs attacked the National Palace and set part of the ...

The total number of displaced people in Haiti has doubled in the past three months to almost 700,000, the WFP said. "I can't count the number of times I've left my house ... Every time I arrive in ...

Violence is intensifying in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, this week, which saw a United Nations helicopter hit by gunfire and two gangs apparently target US embassy vehicles. A security ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Police on Monday clashed with gunmen trying to take over one of the few communities in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, that is not controlled by gangs. Solino has been ...

30, 2024 to renew the mandate of the U.N.-backed Multinational Security Support mission in Haiti. Xinhua Xinhua/Sipa USA Seven years after the last United Nations peacekeepers departed amid ...

By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Armed gangs in Haiti opened fire on U.S. Embassy vehicles and a United Nations helicopter this week, an escalation of attacks as criminal groups overwhelm security forc ...