Written by When the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, travelled through Haiti, he heard one constant refrain: “We Haitians, we’re like reeds. We bend but we never break.” Yet, as he tells Helen Pidd, it is a phrase that is being tested like rarely before, as ordinary Haitians are caught up in violence all over the […]
United States aviation authorities prohibited all civilian flights to Haiti for a month on Tuesday. The decision comes a day after a Spirit Airlines jetliner coming from Florida was shot at on approach to the capital Port-au-Prince, as a new prime minister took the reins of a nation in the midst of a bloody gang war. The […]
A Spirit Airlines plane was struck by bullets as it was landing in Haiti’s capital, prompting authorities to close down the main airport of a nation caught in a raging gang war. Source link
Spirit Airlines plane was hit by gunfire when it tried to land in Haiti. A Spirit Airlines jetliner from Florida was hit by gunfire with one flight attendant suffering minor injuries while the plane was making a landing in Port-au-Prince in Haiti Monday. Flight 951 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Port-au-Prince was diverted and landed […]
Republican Donald Trump’s false claims about voter fraud in the critical battleground of Pennsylvania have raised concerns he could again try to overturn election results if he fares poorly against Democrat Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s US presidential election. Opinion polls, both nationally and in the seven closely divided battleground states, show former President Trump locked […]
A gang coalition on Saturday reinforced its attacks on one of the few communities in the Haitian capital not under the control of criminal groups seeking to take it over. Many people were seen leaving the Solino area with whatever they could carry. (AP Video/Pierre Luxama) Source link
Das Justizministerium in Haiti hat stärkere Sicherheitsmaßnahmen für Premierminister Garry Conille und andere Kabinettsmitglieder gefordert. Das Ministerium teilte mit, es lägen übereinstimmende und anhaltende Informationen darüber vor, dass Spitzenpolitiker von ungenannten Akteuren angegriffen werden könnten, die Unruhe und Panik im Lande säen wollten. Polizei- und Justizbehörden wurden aufgefordert, geeignete Maßnahmen zu ergreifen, um die Sicherheit der Politiker zu […]
Ataques de pandillas en el sur de la capital haitiana, Puerto Príncipe, dejaron al menos dos muertos y más de cinco mil desplazados, informaron este lunes las autoridades de protección civil de ese país caribeño desgarrado por la violencia. Haití sufre desde hace años la acción de bandas criminales, pero esta se ha intensificado en […]
Più di cento persone sono morte e quaranta sono rimaste ferite in un attacco avvenuto all’alba del 3 ottobre a Pont-Sondé, nel dipartimento haitiano dell’Artibonite, nell’ovest del paese. Il bilancio precedente delle Nazioni Unite era di settanta vittime, ma il 9 ottobre è stato aggiornato da un funzionario locale che è intervenuto in una radio […]