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The country is increasingly isolated after the Port-au-Prince international airport was closed due to commercial passenger planes being struck by gunfire. The UN is in discussions over what steps ...
The United Nations human rights chief said Monday that 184 people were killed over the weekend in the Haitian capital, as Port-au-Prince was rocked by a spike in gang violence that pushed the ...
PANAMA CITY/PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 26 (Reuters) - United Nations evacuation flights are set to land in Panama City this week as the international organization removes staff from Haiti due to a sharp ...
At least 150 people have been killed in Port-au-Prince over the past week, the United Nations says, as the Haitian capital reels from a surge in gang violence. In a statement on Wednesday, the UN ...
“You will have seen that following a Spirit Airlines was shot at on its final approach at the airport in Port-au-Prince, the airport has now been closed until 18 November,” UN spokesman ...
Haiti’s Port-au-Prince airport has been reopened after being ... Dozens of Kenyan police officers who have signed up to be a part of the UN-backed international security force will arrive ...
For a country that does not manufacture weapons, a UN report in January found every type of gun was flooding Port-au-Prince: high-powered rifles such as AK-47s, 9mm pistols, sniper rifles and ...
Eighty percent of Port-au-Prince is currently controlled by gangs, according to UN estimates. Haiti was thrown into crisis at the start of March, as gangs called for the resignation of Prime ...
We call New York City the Port-Au-Prince of America ... after the prime minister said he would step down, but the U.S. and UN began to withdraw staff in a sign they fear peace might not hold.
In the latest UN report on Haiti, Guterres even warned that insecurity in Port-au-Prince "has reached levels comparable to countries in armed conflict." UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ...