Behind the brightly painted exterior of Jalousie, one of Haiti's largest slums, lives a community struggling with a lack of sanitation and running water, intermittent electricity and rivers of ...

Officials say more than 5,600 people were reported killed in Haiti last year as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenya struggles to contain rampant gang violence.

While the roles of foreign powers and corrupt politicians are well known, the oligarchy has received little attention outside ...

The United Nations is warning that hunger in one of Haiti's biggest slums is at catastrophic levels, as gang violence and economic crises push the country to "breaking point". Nearly 20,000 people ...

Some Haitian Canadians are feeling stress and hopelessness after the United Nations migration agency reported more than one ...

A bout 180 people were slaughtered by a gang in a Port-au-Prince slum over the weekend, mostly residents over 60, and Haiti's government has promised retribution. A human rights group reports that ...

Felix did not immediately comment on the accusations. Cite Soleil, a densely populated slum by the port of the capital Port-au-Prince, is among the poorest and most violent areas of Haiti. Tight gang ...

In a report published on Monday, the UN office in Haiti detailed events that took place between December 6 and 11 in the Wharf Jeremie neighbourhood of Cite Soleil, a coastal slum in the capital ...

The New York Times: U.N. Troops Fight Haiti Gangs One Street at a Time For The New York Times, reporter Marc Lacey writes about the U.N. peacekeepers raid of Cite Soleil, the largest slum in the ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than 5,600 people were reported killed in ... Last year's victims include more than 200 people killed in early December in a gang-controlled slum, many of them older ...