AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean
Workers handled beef in Avellaneda in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. People cooled off in Arpoador beach in Rio de ...
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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 ...
The Independent10d
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 ...
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Can Haiti’s gangs help solve the political crisis? Some politicians seem to think so
Last year, as Caribbean leaders worked with Haitians ... talks has long guided some foreign embassies’ approach in Port-au-Prince. Some political observers have been quietly wondering if the ...
Miami Herald13d
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 ...
The Independent29d
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 has 1 million displaced people, mostly from gang violence. It's tripled over the past year
The two 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 ...
Newsday28d
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 ...
The Globe and Mail28d
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.) ...