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United Nations imposes sanctions on more gangs in Haiti amid growing violence
Attacks last week in the Central Plateau displaced more than 16,000 more people, the U.N. said, warning that, along with ...
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Haiti's iconic Hotel Oloffson, long a cultural beacon, destroyed by gang violence
Prince, long a haven for artists and writers, poets and presidents, a symbol of Haiti's troubled politics and its storied ...
Gangs in Haiti burn beloved Gothic gingerbread hotel that rose to international fame
In the late 1980s, Richard Morse became the hotel’s manager. His band, RAM, played Haitian roots music on Thursday nights ...
Gangs burn down Haiti’s iconic Hotel Oloffson, host to stars and writers
Jackie Onassis and Mick Jagger once slept there, and writer Graham Greene immortalized it. Now Haitian gangs have destroyed it.
A Hotel Made Famous by Graham Greene Is a Victim of Haiti’s Violence
Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that ...
Vigilantes once fought Haiti’s gangs. Now it’s hard to tell them apart.
Arnold Junior Pierre, a journalist for Radio Galaxie, was on his way to the station in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince ...
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Haitian capital ‘paralysed and isolated’ by gang violence, Security Council hears
More than 1.3 million people have been displaced in Haiti as surging gang violence, lawlessness, and impunity expose the ...
Haiti gangsters like 'Barbecue' now have 'near total control' as nation 'on brink'
A worrying new UN report has warned Haiti's violent criminal gangs have nearly taken over the capital and are pushing the ...
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Haiti gangs nearly control capital amid violence: UN
Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across the impoverished Caribbean nation, senior UN officials warned Wednesday. An ...