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At least 30 people, many of them young, have died and dozens more are reported to have been injured after a crush at a mountaintop fortress in northern Haiti that is a popular tourist spot.

Altagrace, a mother living in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, remembers the moment that her life changed forever.

Haitian police killed 16 suspected gang members during an ongoing anti-gang operation this weekend as part of a broader campaign to reclaim gang-controlled areas, including most of the capital and several key routes.

Two men planned to invade a Caribbean island to take sex slaves and live out their violent ’rape fantasies’, prosecutors have said.

The UK government will provide an additional £5 million in emergency humanitarian funding to support the Caribbean region’s recovery from Hurricane Melissa.

A new United Nations force has begun operating in Haiti amid a flurry of media messaging about its mandate to “neutralize” heavily-armed criminal gangs, which have seized control of much of the Caribbean nation in a murderous rampage.

Hurricane Melissa intensified into a powerful category 4 hurricane on Sunday, threatening days of catastrophic winds and rain in the northern Caribbean, while Jamaica’s government ordered mandatory evacuations for vulnerable areas across the country including in the capital, Kingston.

Haitian journalist Gary Tesse was murdered in October 2022. The person allegedly responsible is former Les Cayes prosecutor Ronald Richemond, who is also accused of seizing large tracts of land, which he then resold to enrich himself.

An Irish woman is among nine people kidnapped from an orphanage in Haiti.

The two countries topped the 2024 Impunity Index, which ranks countries based on the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of population, while globally impunity surrounding attacks on journalists remains rampant with almost 80% of murders going unpunished.

Addison Pierre Maalouf, known online as YourFellowArab, was reportedly kidnapped in Haiti after trying to interview notorious gang leader Jimmy ’Barbecue’ Cherizier

Bryan Stern and his team at Project Dynamo specialise in ’hard cases in hard places’ and say they’ll never leave anyone behind

Jimmy Cherizier, who's nicknamed 'Barbecue' for incinerating his victims, has issued a chilling warning to political leaders as Haiti is plunged into further violence

Jimmy Chérizier, a gang leader in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has vowed he will fight for control at all costs - as his cohorts destroy police stations and other state buildings

Amid escalating violence and political turmoil, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry's resignation, coupled with international aid, aims to stabilize the nation currently ruled by powerful gangs

A humanitarian aid worker has described the terrifying 'pop-pop-pah' of constant gunfire in Haiti’s capital as Jimmy 'Barbecue' Chérizier and his gang thugs become increasingly more volatile

Haiti's most notorious gang leader, Jimmy Chérizier, has warned the international community that without their help, the Caribbean country will plunge into 'further chaos'

The 74-year-old neurosurgeon who trained and worked in southern France got involved in Haitian politics in the early 2000s, when he became leader of a movement that opposed then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide

The U.S. military said Sunday that it had flown in forces to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and allow nonessential personnel to leave.

Haiti has declared a state of emergency as spate of violence continues amid gang violence in Port-au-Prince following political uncertainty

Jimmy Cherizier, known as "Barbecue," claims the violence engulfing Port-au-Prince will lead to "civil war" if Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who was supposed to resign last month, continues in his role

Haitian gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, also known as 'Barbecue', has threatened to start a civil war and genocide unless the country's prime minister, Ariel Henry, resigns

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been forced to flee the country after mob boss Jimmy Cherizier, also known as Barbecue, freed 4,000 prisoners in an attempt to overthrow the government

Jimmy Chérizier, Haiti's most powerful gang boss, has claimed responsibility for the release of nearly 4,00 prisoners as he looks to overthrow Prime Minister Ariel Henry

Plastic sandals, clothing, and furniture were all found strewn across the patio after Gang leader Jimmy Chérizier pledged to oust the country's acting prime minister Ariel Henry