Haitian gangs

Residents of Port-au-Prince’s Cite Soleil district have staged a protest to seek the protection of local authorities after gang violence forced hundreds of people to flee their homes over the weekend.

"It is clear that the security conditions are not met at the level for us to have elections in August," Fils-Aimé said in an interview broadcast Monday on Magik9 radio in Haiti and reported by Reuters.

The U.S. Embassy posted Wednesday on X that such a maneuver would undermine efforts to establish "a minimal level of security and stability" in Haiti, and said the U.S. would take "appropriate measures" to respond.

The U.S. government has imposed visa restrictions on Fritz Alphonse Jean, a member of Haiti's transitional presidential council, and accused him of supporting gangs. The U.S. also accuses Jean of obstructing Haiti's fight against the gangs that control 90% of Haiti's capital and extort businesses using military-grade weaponry.

The U.N. Security Council's approval for the creation of a so-called gang suppression force in Haiti has been met with wary resignation in the small Caribbean state.

Citing police sources, Haitian media report one of Haiti’s violent and powerful gangs was responsible for abducting nine people from the Sainte-Hélène orphanage outside Port-au-Prince. A day earlier, police arrested former Haitian Sen. Nenel Cassy for allegedly sponsoring gangs, which now control almost all of Port-au-Prince.

U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Miramar, said Friday that she and more than 30 congressional colleagues signed a letter with their recommendations to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

The proposed law would require the Department of Defense to expand the mission of the Joint Interagency Task Force South to include efforts to stop illicit arms trafficking.

Spirit Airlines officials confirmed to WLRN that Flight 951 from Fort Lauderdale to Port-au-Prince was shot at while landing at Toussaint Louverture International Airport.

Gangs in Haiti have opened fire and hit a U.N. helicopter, forcing it to land in Port-au-Prince in the latest attack in the country's capital as violence surges once again.

The attack on residents of the town of Pont-Sondé on Oct. 3 was one of the biggest massacres that Haiti has seen in recent history.

Haiti’s newly selected Prime Minister Garry Conille and Haiti’s police chief visited the capital’s largest hospital, after authorities said they took control of the medical institution over the weekend from armed gangs.