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Residents of Haiti's largest slums are enjoying more undisturbed nights since U.N. peacekeepers cleared out armed gangs, but they still want to see food, jobs and other hoped-for benefits of the ...
According to data from the International Organization for Migration, more than 1 million people are now displaced within ...
Gunmen clashed with police in a running street battle in a slum district of Haiti's capital on Friday, fueling fears of a resurgence of the election-related violence that hit the poor Caribbean ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- One of Haiti's biggest shantytowns, a vast expanse of grim cinderblock homes on a mountainside in the nation's capital, is getting a psychedelic makeover that aims to ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers raided Haiti’s largest slum Friday to arrest gang members and take control of the area – sparking a gun battle that wounded at least two ...
April 18, 2005 — -- Abby Maxman is the country director in Haiti for CARE, an international relief organization that has been trying to help rehabilitate Haiti for 50 years. The country is ...
A United Nations spokeswoman says the world body's peacekeeping mission in Haiti has deployed troops to several slums in Port-au-Prince to crack down on gangs and criminals.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of U.N. peacekeepers raided Haiti's largest and most violent slum Friday, seizing a portion of it in a six-hour gunbattle that left a gang member dead ...
As the first bursts of gunfire rang out, the women from La Saline slum grabbed their kids and fled for cover. Iris Daniel, 57, Lovely Saint-Pierre, 32, and Evanston Daniel, 5, pose on May 25, 2019 ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 1 -- Heavy gunfire rang out near Haiti's presidential palace Wednesday as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell met with the country's interim leaders.