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Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's breaking a taboo on mental health services

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Students often throw up or wet themselves when gunfire erupts outside their school in northern Port-au-Prince. When they do, school director Roseline Ceragui Lou...

DATE: May 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Shunned for centuries, Vodou grows powerful as Haitians seek solace from unrelenting gang violence

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of s...

DATE: May 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Transitional council in Haiti embraces new changes following turmoil as gang violence grips country

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for Haiti is changing the way it operates in a move that surprised many as gang violence consumes the cou...

DATE: May 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

The unexpected announcement of a prime minister divides Haiti's newly created transitional council

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is threatening to fracture a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new le...

DATE: Apr 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Haiti's transitional council names a new prime minister in the hopes of quelling stifling violence

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose a little known former sports minister as the Caribbean country’s prime minister Tuesday as part of its monumen...

DATE: Apr 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

New leaders take on Haiti's chaos as those living in fear demand swift solutions to gang violence

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — It has been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on the Caribbean nation's new leaders is rapid...

DATE: Apr 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

With fear and hope, Haiti warily welcomes new governing council as gang-ravaged country seeks peace

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti opened a new political chapter Thursday with the installation of a transitional council tasked to pick a new prime minister and prepare for eventual presid...

DATE: Apr 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Haiti health system nears collapse as medicine dwindles, gangs attack hospitals and ports stay shut

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurse...

DATE: Apr 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Haitians scramble to survive, seeking food, water and safety as gang violence chokes the capital

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As the sun sets, a burly man bellows into a megaphone while a curious crowd gathers around him. Next to him is a small cardboard box with several banknotes worth...

DATE: Apr 21, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Haiti's former capital seeks to revive its hey-day as gang violence consumes Port-au-Prince

CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) — They call it Okap, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries. Sitting on the shimmering north coast, the city of Cap-Haïtien was abandoned as a ...

DATE: Apr 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Associated Press