Haiti
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At least 70 people have been killed in a gang massacre in Haiti, the UN has said. Armed gunmen belonging to the Gran Grif gang passed through the town of Pont-Sonde with automatic rifles, shooting at residents on Thursday, according to the United Nations’ Human Rights Office. “We are horrified by Thursday’s gang attacks in…
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Health facilities in Port-au-Prince metropolitan areas continue to be impacted by the ongoing violence, further restricting access to life-saving care for people in and around the Haitian capital, said UN humanitarians on Wednesday. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that armed groups last week looted two health care facilities — Delmas…
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England have edged their first Women’s World Cup match with a 1-0 victory over Haiti in Brisbane. It took 29 minutes for Georgia Stanway to push the Lionesses into the lead with a retaken penalty – aiming the ball low into the left corner of the net. With the win England go top of Group…
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A mob in Haiti’s capital beat and burned 13 suspected gang members to death on Monday, police and witnesses said. The alleged gang members were reportedly beaten with gasoline-soaked tires and set alight after police seized them and were searching their vehicle. The brutality underscores the extremely turbulent nature of Port-au-Prince, where criminal gangs control more than half of the…
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Nine years ago, Haiti witnessed its worst natural disaster–an earthquake which destroyed more than half of a capital city. A total of 300,000 people were reported dead and over 2.3 million residents displaced. The death toll was provided after thorough assessments from intergovernmental bodies. In its statement on the earthquake, which struck on 12…
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After 13 years, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) will close its doors on 15 October. The Mission was established by the Security Council at a time when State authority had been weak and limited to parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, with the three branches of power either non-functional or non-existent, and a…
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