haiti
Some senior U.S. Republicans criticized the presidential administration's decision to direct military aid to Haiti from Pentagon stocks, claiming it could have otherwise been sent to Ukraine, Politico reported on May 21. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration approved in April a $60 million military aid package for the Haitian National Police and international security missions from countries like Kenya in order to help quell gang violence on the Caribbean island. The package is meant to fast-track rifles, ammunition, and armored vehicles from the presidential drawdown authority (PDA), a to...
Kyiv Independent
Some senior U.S. Republicans criticized the presidential administration's decision to direct military aid to Haiti from Pentagon stocks, claiming it could have otherwise been sent to Ukraine, Politico reported on May 21. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration approved in April a $60 million military aid package for the Haitian National Police and international security missions from countries like Kenya in order to help quell gang violence on the Caribbean island. The package is meant to fast-track rifles, ammunition, and armored vehicles from the presidential drawdown authority (PDA), a to...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Some senior U.S. Republicans criticized the presidential administration's decision to direct military aid to Haiti from Pentagon stocks, claiming it could have otherwise been sent to Ukraine, Politico reported on May 21. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration approved in April a $60 million military aid package for the Haitian National Police and international security missions from countries like Kenya in order to help quell gang violence on the Caribbean island. The package is meant to fast-track rifles, ammunition, and armored vehicles from the presidential drawdown authority (PDA), a to...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Pope Francis has said he is thinking about the struggles facing the people of Haiti. He was speaking to thousands of people who had gathered on St. Mark’s square in Venice to hear the pontiff offer mass. “The population is in despair because of the collapse of the health care system, food shortages and violence that is forcing people to flee,” Pope Francis said. Haiti has been in turmoil since the 2021 assassination of president Jovenel Moïse. Gang violence is rife in the capital, with armed groups controlling most of Port-au-Prince. In a report published last month, the United Nations describ...
Euronews (English)
Haiti steht vor der schlimmsten Nahrungsmittelkrise seit 12 Jahren, berichtet das Welternährungsprogramm der Vereinten Nationen. Dort stehen mehr als 1,6 Millionen Menschen kurz vor einer Hungersnot, darunter über 600.000 Kinder – mehr als die Hälfte der Kinder im Land. Rund fünf Millionen Menschen werden in den kommenden Monaten Schwierigkeiten haben, grundlegende Lebensmittel zu erhalten. Das sind über die Hälfte der Bevölkerung und etwa 1,3 Millionen mehr Menschen als vor fünf Jahren. Den Schätzungen zufolge werden allein in der Hauptstadt Port-au-Prince rund 20 Prozent der Familien von Nah...
Euronews (German)
Bandengewalt stürzt Haiti weiterhin ins Chaos. Hundertausende Menschen sind deshalb auf der Flucht. Laut einem am Dienstag veröffentlichten UN-Bericht hat die extreme Gewalt weitere 53.000 Menschen zur Flucht gezwungen. Sie sind in weniger als drei Wochen aus Haitis Hauptstadt Port-au-Prince geflüchtet. Ländliche Gebiete überlastetMehr als 60 Prozent von den Flüchtlingen sind auf dem Weg in die ländlichen Regionen im Süden des Landes. Dort leben bereits 116.000 aus der Hauptstadt geflüchtete Haitianer. Dass immer mehr Menschen im Süden des Landes ankommen, beunruhigt die UN-Beamten. Dem UN-Spr...
Euronews (German)
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...
Euronews (English)
Die Bandengewalt in Haiti eskaliert, fordert weiterhin Opfer und terrorisiert das ganze Land. Vor etwa einem Monat hatten bewaffnete Banden Gefängnisse, Polizeistationen und den internationalen Flughafen des Landes angegriffen. Mindestens 1.554 Menschen wurden bislang getötet und Tausende wurden obdachlos inmitten der Gewalt, die jetzt Ängste vor zunehmendem Hunger aufkommen lässt. Jetzt haben sich im Stadtzentrum der haitianischen Hauptstadt, Port-au-Prince, Polizei und Bandenmitglieder eine Schießereien in der Nähe des Nationalpalastes geliefert. Dutzende Menschen mussten sich stundenlang ve...
Euronews (German)
Port-au-Prince (AFP) - Fourteen bodies were found in an affluent suburb of Haiti's capital Monday, as international efforts accelerated to fill a political vacuum created by weeks of gang violence that has forced the impending departure of the prime minister. Local residents told AFP they did not know the circumstances of the deaths but said that the Laboule and Thomassin neighborhoods, in the suburb of Petion-Ville, had been under attack by what they said were armed criminals since dawn. Witnesses said gang members attacked a bank, a gas station and homes in the area. Gunfire continued to rin...
AFP
Washington (AFP) - Weeks before the latest violence broke out in Haiti, the self-described "king" of a Haitian gang was in a US court pleading guilty to smuggling AK47s and a .50 caliber rifle to the Caribbean nation. "The Justice Department will aggressively pursue every tool at its disposal to hold accountable those who would smuggle US-origin weapons and other controlled goods for the benefit of malicious actors," prosecutors said at the time. But as conflict rages between Haiti's gangs and police, the guilty plea of Joly Germine, 31, in late January for smuggling some two dozen weapons ha...
AFP
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