Kenya is set to spearhead a multinational security mission in Haiti to combat criminal gangs and militant groups that are plaguing the small Caribbean nation. The UN Security Council greenlit the security mission on Monday, with 13 members voting in favor of the US-introduced resolution and two abstentions from Russia …
Read More »Gang kidnappings, earthquakes, assassinations and mass border crossings – what the heck is going on in Haiti?
Journalism is a funny old game. One minute you’re lunching with a war criminal in a maximum-security jail cell, the next you’re getting high from secondary crack smoke in a trap house, and then you’re drinking mint tea with the only man to have pulled off an Islamic coup in …
Read More »US envoy to Haiti resigns over ‘inhumane’ deportations and ‘catastrophic’ political meddling
“I will not be associated with the United States’ inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs to daily life,” Foote wrote in his resignation letter …
Read More »‘Situation is getting out of control’: Migrants from Haiti revolt in attempt to escape bus transporting them in Texas
A group of illegal aliens from Haiti was being transported from a makeshift camp on the Texas-Mexico border to a processing center in Brownsville, Texas, on Monday afternoon when some of the migrants assaulted federal agents to take control of the bus, Kleberg County Sheriff Richard Kirkpatrick said. “It was …
Read More »Chief prosecutor in Haiti SACKED after he tried to charge PM for alleged role in president’s murder
Chief public prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude was terminated on Tuesday, with a new replacement sworn in just hours after Claude asked a judge overseeing the probe into Moise’s assassination to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry for an alleged role in the murder. Claude first raised the allegations last week, claiming that …
Read More »‘Haiti is on its knees,’ PM says as earthquake deaths top 2,100 & tens of thousands of families left homeless
The latest death toll was provided by the country’s Civil Protection Agency on Wednesday night, now putting the figure at 2,189 people killed and 12,268 injured, also noting that more than 300 remain missing since the quake struck last Saturday. In a video address earlier in the evening, Prime Minister …
Read More »Haiti quake death toll shoots to 1,297 as hospitals overwhelmed with some 5,700 injured
The new toll presents a dramatic increase from at least 724 deaths that were reported earlier on Sunday, up from a previous count of 304. Many of the casualties, including an estimated 2,800 injuries, occurred in southwestern Haiti, near the quake’s epicenter. Overall, at least 5,700 people have been injured, …
Read More »Haiti earthquake death toll jumps to 724 people as STORM expected to hit devastated Caribbean country
Haiti’s civil protection agency raised the death toll on Sunday morning, a day after the country was shaken by a magnitude-7.2 earthquake. The quake struck the island nation’s southern peninsula, collapsing buildings in several towns and leaving streets strewn with rubble. A government press release noted that 500 people had …
Read More »5.8-magnitude tremor rocks Haiti as it reels from devastating quake that killed over 300
The new tremor hit some 31km (19 miles) north of the city of Jeremie in Haiti’s westernmost Grand’Anse department on Sunday morning, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported. The USGS put the quake’s depth at 12km. While the USGS predicted that some casualties may result from the new quake, …
Read More »FIRST VIDEOS show widespread destruction after Haiti earthquake
Haiti was shaken on Saturday by a major earthquake, which hit the southern peninsula of the island nation near the towns of Saint-Louis-du-Sud and Jeremie. Casualty figures are still unclear, but video footage posted to social media captured the damage dealt to Haiti’s infrastructure. The first videos emerging from Jeremie …
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