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Heavy gunfire has erupted in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital as police battled gang members near the National Palace for several hours. Scores of people were trapped by the gunfire in downtown Port-au-Prince on Monday, while dozens of others managed to flee. One man who declined to provide his name out of fear for his life told The Associated Press that he was stuck for five hours until police rescued him. “It’s the armoured car that covered us (so we could) leave the area,” he said. The latest gunbattle comes more than a month after gangs began attacking key government infrastructure. Ga...
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Haitian politicians started pursuing new alliances Wednesday, seeking a coalition that could lead the country out of the gang violence that has fuelled lawlessness, closed the main airport and prevented embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry from returning home. One new political alliance involves former rebel leader Guy Philippe and ex-presidential candidate and senator Moïse Jean Charles, who told Radio Caraïbes on Wednesday that they signed a deal to form a three-person council to lead Haiti. Philippe, a key figure in the 2004 rebellion that ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ret...
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Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites. It comes as Haiti is currently experiencing an explosion of violence. The Toussaint Louverture International Airport was closed when the attack occurred, with no planes operating and no passengers on site. The attack was the biggest in Haiti's history on an airport. It occurred just hours after authorities in Haiti ordered a nighttime curfew after armed gang members overran the two biggest prisons and freed thousan...
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Voters in El Salvador appear to have given Nayib Bukele a second term as president, although a troubled vote tally delayed results late on Sunday night. Ballots from only 31 per cent of polling stations were tallied, a percentage that remained stuck on the Supreme Electoral Tribunal's preliminary results website Monday morning. When counting stopped late Sunday, Bukele had 83 per cent of the vote, far ahead of his nearest competitor, the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, which recorded seven per cent. The electoral site updating the count crashed shortly before midnight. It di...
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