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Inmates gather inside the National Penitentiary in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, March 3, 2024. Hundreds of inmates fled Haiti's main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility overnight. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haiti orders nightly curfew trying to restore calm after a weekend of violence and prison break

By Evens Sano and Pierre-Richard Luxama - Associated Press

Residents walk past a the body of a man during clashes between police and gang members at the Portail neighborhood in Port-au-Prince in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Gunmen shot at the international airport and other targets in a wave of violence that forced businesses, government agencies and schools to close early. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haitian police spokesman says new gang attacks overwhelmed officers: ‘The city center was at war’

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Youths raise their hands to show police they are not carrying weapons during an anti-gang operation at the Portail neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Gunmen shot at the international airport and other targets in a wave of violence that forced businesses, government agencies and schools to close early. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Gunfire paralyzes Haiti as powerful gang leader says he will try to detain police chief, ministers

By Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, center, and first lady Martine Moise walk with Prime Minister Jean Henry Ceant as they leave a ceremony marking the 212th anniversary of the assassination of independence hero Gen. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, in Port-au-Prince Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Slain Haitian president’s widow, ex-prime minister and former national police chief indicted in case

By Danica Coto and Evens Sanon - Associated Press

A National Police officer patrols an intersection in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. A court in Kenya on Friday blocked the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force to help fight gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haitians suffering gang violence are desperate after Kenyan court blocks police force deployment

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Coup leader Guy Philippe repatriated to Haiti as many question his next role in country in upheaval

By Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto - Associated Press

FILE - Residents flee their homes to escape clashes between armed gangs in the Carrefour-Feuilles district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 15, 2023. Kenya’s government said Nov. 9, 2023 that its police will not be deployed to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding are met in line with last month’s approval from the U.N Security Council to give the eastern African country command of a multinational mission to combat violent gangs in Haiti. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

Kenya says it won’t deploy police to fight gangs in Haiti until they receive training and funding

By Emmanuel Igunza and Dánica Coto - Associated Press

FILE - An image of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is displayed at a news conference, Feb. 14, 2023, in Miami. A federal judge in Miami on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 sentenced Germán Alejandro Rivera García, a retired Colombian army officer, to life in prison for his role in plotting to kill Moïse on July 7, 2021. He is the second of 11 suspects detained and charged in Miami to be sentenced. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Retired Colombian army officer gets life sentence in 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president

By Gisela Salomon - Associated Press

A police officer holds a resident who was shot in the head during violent gang clashes, as he carries him away on a moto-taxi in the Carrefour-Feuilles district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/ Odelyn Joseph)

Haiti gang leader vows to fight any foreign armed force and urges revolt against government

By Evens Sanon - Associated Press

Demonstrators run past tires set on fire during a protest against insecurity in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Rights group urges rapid international intervention to end spiraling gang violence in Haiti

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Fate of American nurse and her daughter kidnapped by armed men in Haiti remains uncertain

By Evens Sanon and Michael Casey - Associated Press

People carry an injured person away from a home that collapsed due to an earthquake in Jeremie, Haiti, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Ralph Simon)

4.9 magnitude quake strikes southern Haiti; 3 dead, several injured

By Evens Sanon and Dánica Coto - Associated Press

Graffiti that reads in Haitian Creole: "Bwa Kale is not good for the people" covers what it was once a security booth outside the presidential palace, before it was destroyed during the 2010 earthquake, in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, June 1, 2023. A vigilante movement dubbed “bwa kale” means “peeled wood” and insinuates male dominance and power in street slang. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Vigilantes in Haiti strike back at gangsters with brutal street justice

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

Community group members hold their machetes in Delmas district as they support the "Bwa Kale" movement, an initiative to fight gangs seeking to take control of their neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haitian vigilantes kill 160 gang members, halt kidnappings in past month: Report

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Police officers take cover during an anti-gang operation in the Portail neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, April 25, 2023, a day after a mob in the Haitian capital pulled 13 suspected gang members from police custody at a traffic stop and beat and burned them to death with gasoline-soaked tires. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

U.N.: Delaying help to combat Haiti’s gangs may affect region

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Barbecue, the leader of the &quot;G9 and Family&quot; gang, stands next to garbage to call attention to the conditions people live in as he leads a march against kidnapping through La Saline neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. The group said they were also protesting poverty and for justice in the slaying of President Jovenel Moise. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)

Haiti’s struggle worsened in year since slaying of president

By Evens Sanon and Danica Coto - Associated Press

People wrangle over a gas pump as they try to get their tanks filled at a gas station, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday. Nov 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

U.S. urges citizens to leave Haiti amid deepening turmoil

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Security forces patrol the streets of Croix-des-Bouquets, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. A general strike continues in Haiti demanding that authorities address the nation’s lack of security, four days after 17 members of a U.S.-based missionary group were abducted by a gang. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Negotiations drag on over 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti

By Danica Coto and Pierre-Richard Luxama - Associated Press

Homes stand densely packed in the Jalouise neighborhood of Port-au-Prince at sunrise, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Anatomy of a kidnapping: Haitian woman recounts abduction

By Dánica Coto - Associated Press

People gather outside the Petit Pas Hotel, destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, with the epicenter about 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the US Geological Survey said. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Why Haiti is prone to devastating earthquakes

By Ben Finley - Associated Press