Haiti

Haiti’s National Police agency has found the charred remains of a vehicle used by four missing Salvadoran aviation technicians.

The Centre D’Accueil-Bedrock, a welcome center for Haitian immigrants who have been deported from the United States, has offers temporary refuge and support in the coastal Haitian city of Cap-Haïtien.

A new report has found that nearly six million people in Haiti are experiencing severe hunger, with almost two million facing emergency conditions. The worsening crisis in the country of nearly 12 million is blamed on a surge in gang violence and displacement, combined with high food and fuel prices and an extreme El Niño weather phenomenon.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele said Wednesday he had launched a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped by gangs in Haiti.

Sunday's ambush and apparent abduction of members of a new international police support force underscore the relentless gang violence that has forced yet another postponement of Haiti's desperately needed elections — and the potentially deadly risks Haitian deportees face.

Gangs in Haiti have attacked an armored vehicle, leaving four Salvadoran soldiers unaccounted for. This marks the first major attack since an international gang suppression force began operations. The attack happened Sunday in Croix-des-Bouquets, a gang-controlled area of Port-au-Prince.

But amid TPS disruption, one group of Haitian leaders is turning toward sustainable nation-building as a way to offset the damage and forge long-term stability for their homeland.

A new report is offering fresh insight into how gangs in Haiti backed by political and economic actors operate in a country preparing for its first general elections in more than 10 years.

Colombian president Abelardo de la Espriella has offered legal assistance to a group of Colombian military veterans who were arrested over the 2021 killing of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. The 17 Colombians were recently extradited to Florida, after being held for five years without being sentenced in Haiti.

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Angie Nixon called on Florida's two Republican senators — Sen. Rick Scott and Sen. Ashley Moody — to push their Senate colleagues to protect hundreds of thousands of Haitians whose humanitarian visas were terminated by the Trump administration.

Five years after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, dozens of people arrested in connection with the killing in the troubled Caribbean nation are still awaiting trial in Miami.

Federal immigration authorities tell WLRN the Pompano Beach mother was ordered deported 20 years ago because she is a convicted criminal. Her supporters say Sirena Prosper is a lawful permanent U.S. resident.