The Trump administration is using Haiti's "widespread" gang violence, along with the State Department's recent decision to designate several of the country's most powerful armed groups as "foreign ...

Between October 2024 and June 2025, 4,864 people have been killed in Haiti amid worsening gang violence nationwide.

Senior U.N. officials warn that Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Surging violence in Haiti from clashes between security forces and armed gangs since March has displaced nearly 580,000 people, according to a report from the U.N ...

Amid runaway gang violence and crumbling state authority, the Security Council on Monday unanimously extended the mandate of ...

Voodoo - a mix of African religions and Roman Catholicism - is central to Haitian life. In 2003, then-Haitian President Jean ...

The United Nations has appealed to the international community to bolster its support for Haiti after a report revealed that ...

Haiti 's once-illustrious Grand Hôtel Oloffson, a beloved Gothic gingerbread home that inspired books, hosted parties until ...

But the latest numbers also show that the gang violence is spreading to other regions of Haiti and inching close to the 1.5 million left homeless by Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake.

The massive crowd that would gather once a year at a revered waterfall in central Haiti where the faithful would splash in its sacred waters and rub their bodies with aromatic leaves was not there on ...

One of Haiti’s staunchest advocates in Congress wants to force the Trump administration to come up with a clear U.S. strategy for helping the gang-ridden Caribbean nation return to stability — and to ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to tackle gang violence, hopes were high.