Government must use lethal force against armed groups, transitional government head tells the FT amid ‘kamikaze’ drone campaign ...

When there is a weakness, we look for other people to support the national police,” says Fritz Alphonse Jean, head of the nine-member presidential transitional council.

Haitian gangs now have "near-total control" of the country's capital, the United Nations is warning, as the transitional government continues to be unable to contain the criminal groups.

Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across the impoverished Caribbean nation, senior U.N. officials warned Wednesday.

The United Nations Security Council on Monday extended the mandate of its political mission in Haiti, agreeing that the ...

Haiti's gangs have gained "near-total control" of the capital and authorities are unable to stop escalating violence across ...

Between October 2024 and June 2025, 4,864 people have been killed in Haiti amid worsening gang violence nationwide.

Warfare in the skies has arrived in Haiti. The country’s government has been in a vicious and, up until now, losing battle with heavily armed gangs. Over the course of the past year gangsters ...

The resistance fighters engage gang members in shoot-outs in the street, while the police and private military contractors have begun using kamikaze drones laden with explosives.

Haiti has reportedly turned to military contractor and supporter of President Donald Trump, Erik Prince, to take down violent gangs around the country. Prince and other American contractors have ...

The Caribbean faces a new and urgent threat: weaponised drones in criminal hands are rapidly proliferating into the hands of criminal actors, non‑state militias, and private contractors. What began as ...

Since drone attacks targeting gangs started in March, they have killed more than 200 people, according to Pierre Esperance, who runs a leading human rights organization in Port-au-Prince.