Haiti

The U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday that it suspended the search for potential survivors of a capsized boat near Puerto Rico after finding 11 bodies and rescuing 38 migrants from a vessel that had carried an estimated 60 to 75 passengers.

Haitians are fleeing in greater numbers to the neighboring Dominican Republic, where they board rickety wooden boats painted sky blue to blend with the ocean to try to reach Puerto Rico — a trip in which 11 Haitian women drowned this week, with dozens of other migrants believed missing.

Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged the leader of a notoriously violent Haitian gang with conspiracy to commit hostage taking for his alleged role in the kidnapping of 16 Americans last year. Germine Joly, 29,  is accused of leading the 400 Mawozo gang and is the first person charged in the U.S. in connection with the kidnapping of the...

Authorities say a former Haitian senator is facing charges in the United States related to last year’s assassination of former Haiti President Jovenel Moïse. Court records show that John Joel Joseph made his initial court appearance Monday in Miami federal court. He was extradited from Jamaica to the U.S. on Friday. He faces a possible life sentence. According to a...

Heavy gunfire echoed Thursday in a once-quiet neighborhood in Haiti’s capital that has become ground zero in a gang fight that has has killed at least 20 people, injured more than a dozen and forced thousands to flee their homes this week.

Thousands of doctors, nurses and other health professionals across Haiti have gone on strike to protest a spike in gang-related kidnappings.

Multiple agencies responded to a call of a wooden vessel carrying more than 300 Haitian migrants in the shallow waters off Ocean Reef Club in north Key Largo Sunday, according to the U.S. Border Patrol. Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard, Border Patrol, Monroe County and Miami Dade Fire Rescue were all on the scene responding to the latest...

A love for snow that started when he was a young orphan who had just arrived in France saw Richardson Viano become Haiti’s first Winter Olympian.

Two moderate earthquakes have shaken southwest Haiti, killing two people, injuring dozens of schoolchildren and damaging hundreds of homes

The U.S. government says it charged one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse as it unsealed a complaint that revealed federal authorities had interviewed several months ago while he was hiding in Jamaica

The remaining members of a missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago have been freed.

Authorities say at least 75 people were killed and dozens more injured after a gasoline tanker overturned and exploded in northern Haiti

Human rights activists accuse the government of targeting vulnerable populations, separating children from their parents and racial profiling. They’ve deported Haitians born in the DR to Haitian parents but denied citizenship and even Black Dominicans born to Dominican parents whom authorities mistake for Haitians.

A religious group based in Ohio has announced that a violent gang in Haiti has released three more hostages, while another 12 remain abducted

A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence warns “climate change will increasingly exacerbate risks to U.S. national security interests.”

The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang has threatened to kill the hostages unless his demands are met.

The U.S. government is urging U.S. citizens to leave Haiti because of the country’s deepening insecurity and a severe lack of fuel

The U.S. government has pledged to strengthen Haiti’s National Police as the country struggles with a spike in gang-related violence and a severe shortage of fuel that has deepened an economic crisis

Sixteen Americans and one Canadian were abducted, along with their Haitian driver.

A protest strike has shuttered businesses, schools and public transportation in a new blow to Haiti’s anemic economy