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An armed member of the G9 and Family gang patrols a roadblock in the Delmas 6 neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday.

Haiti on the brink: US and neighbours step in, prime minister resigns

With the country’s leader having resigned and being stranded in Puerto Rico, gangs are running free and regional partners and Washington have come to the rescue.

  • Danica Coto

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The Fontaine Hospital Centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Police rescue hostages after gang storms Haiti hospital

Jose Ulysse, director of the Fontaine Hospital Centre in Port-au-Prince, said police arrived with three armoured trucks to evacuate 40 children and 70 patients.

  • Evens Sanon
Haitians waiting to board a flight to Nicaragua gather after the government banned all charter flights to Nicaragua, at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

‘Completely unusual’: Haiti blocks flights used by migrants going to US southern border

There were no charter flights from Port-au-Prince to Nicaragua last January. Three daily flights that began in late July had grown to 11 flights a day, said one analyst.

  • Danica Coto and Evens Sanon
A protester holds up a machete as a symbol of self-defence against gangs, during a protest in Port-au-Prince last week.

Pastor leads churchgoers with machetes to remove gang, who open fire

Several people were killed and others injured in Haiti as hundreds of churchgoers, some armed with machetes, proved no match for gang members with assault rifles.

  • Evens Sanon
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Melchie Dumornay takes a shot past England captain Millie Bright.

The 19-year-old giving disaster-ravaged Haiti reason to cheer

It was a miracle that the Caribbean nation qualified for a maiden Women’s World Cup at all. That the football minnows came close to upsetting England was almost unfathomable.

  • Emma Kemp
Lucy Bronze and Nérilia Mondésir.

England kick off World Cup campaign against minnows Haiti

The reigning European champions are one of the favourites for this tournament. Can their Caribbean rivals pull off what would be a shock at Suncorp Stadium?

  • Emma Kemp
A protester takes a selfie at a burning barricade in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday.

Haiti gang that kidnapped missionary group seeks $US1m ransom per hostage

The gang kidnapped 17 members of a US-based missionary group and has demanded a $US17 million ransom, according to Haiti’s justice minister.

  • Danica Coto and Evens Sanon
A man and a child walk by burning tires on a street on Sunday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where a group of 17 US missionaries, including children, was kidnapped by a gang.

Notorious Haitian gang blamed for kidnapping 17 missionaries from US, Canada

The US government has been urged to forcibly free the group or negotiate their release without paying a ransom.

  • Cassandra Garrison

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