Security

The Haitian government invoked martial law measures in parts of the country in 2023 as gang networks destroyed police stations

The United Nations reported on March 21, 2023 that 187 people had been killed in Haiti in just eleven days

Haiti’s National Police force, already dangerously understaffed for a country of its size, shrank further in 2023 as deaths in

Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport was temporarily forced to close in early 2023 as gang violence in surrounding areas made

Gang networks launched coordinated attacks on police stations across Port-au-Prince in early 2023, destroying facilities and forcing security forces to

In a dramatic illustration of the dysfunction at the heart of Haiti’s governance, protesting police officers stormed the residence of

The community self-defense movement that would become known as Bwa Kale gained momentum in late 2022 as residents of neighborhoods

The early signs of a community vigilante movement against gang networks began to emerge in some Port-au-Prince neighborhoods in late

The G9 gang coalition’s blockade of the Varreux fuel terminal was lifted in early November 2022 after weeks of standoff

The Artibonite Valley, Haiti’s agricultural heartland and historically one of the country’s most productive food-producing regions, came under increasing gang