Haiti has been mired for decades by political instability, made worse in recent years by criminal gangs that have grown more powerful. Gangs now control 85 percent of the capital Port-au-Prince ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A soldier carries out an anti-gang operation in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday ...

the spokesperson for the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission for Haiti, said he is confident they will arrest the armed gang leaders responsible for Haiti's security situation.

As hundreds of armed gang members, entrenched in the hills above Haiti’s capital, await orders to attack the last enclaves not currently under their control, the multinational fight to end their ...

In Port-au-Prince, nearly three million people are living in the grips of all-out gang war. A film crew spent a fortnight filming in and around the Haitian capital ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A military contingent from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of ...

This month across the Americas: gangs in Haiti, Chilean biodiversity, and the battle against tuberculosis in Brazil. You can sign up to receive the newsletter here. Can violent gangs contribute to ...

More than 5,600 people were reported killed last year across Haiti and more than 2,200 others were injured. Gang violence has left more than one million people homeless in recent years ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A military contingent from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to bolster a U.N.-backed mission led by ...

Gang violence in Haiti has surged, with sexual assaults against children increasing by 1,000% since 2023, warns Unicef. Gang rule in Haiti has led to a staggering rise in sexual violence against ...

Kenya has so far deployed 600 police officers to Haiti as part of a UN-backed multinational force tasked with restoring security in the Caribbean nation, where gang violence has spiralled out of ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs in Haiti have attacked a neighborhood that's home to most of the country's elite and had been largely untouched by criminals, and police have ...