The leader of Haiti's transitional presidential council says it is taking measures to crack down on a surge in gang violence ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Heavily armed gangs struck the city of Mirebalais in central Haiti on Monday, seizing control of a local prison as hundreds of people fled the area under gunfire.

Armored vehicles used by Kenyan police rumble through the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The vehicles are part of the United States’ more than $600 million in contributions to the U.N.-backed ...

Johnny Fils-Aimé For the Miami Herald Haiti’s capital is again in free fall. The attacks by armed gangs that in recent days have seized control of new neighborhoods is raising fears that ...

A Kenyan police officer working for an international security mission in Haiti has gone missing after he and his colleagues were ambushed by suspected gang members while out on patrol. The ...

It pains our heart each time we read of the latest developments in our sister Caribbean nation Haiti. Last Friday, Mr Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

A member of the international force battling gangs in Haiti has been killed, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio launches a tour of the Caribbean with Haiti’s security crisis high on the agenda.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Former Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding Wednesday warned that Haiti is “perilously close” to being a failed State and urged the international community and ...

A year of staggering violence in Haiti ended in the most brutal fashion. Over the course of five days in December, in a slum near the capital, Port-au-Prince, 207 people were killed by gangsters.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Dr. Solanges Vivens’ journey from a young girl in Haiti to a successful healthcare business owner in the United States has been a testament to the resilience of women around the world.

Haiti is facing a "humanitarian catastrophe" as it reels from a surge in violence that is forcing people from their homes and pushing overstretched health facilities to the brink, Doctors Without ...