Many remain determined to reach the U.S. through more dangerous means, riding freight trains, hiring smugglers and dodging ...

I want to thank you for helping my America, my Colombia, achieve freedom,” he said. “You even gave us our flag.” ...

Haiti's government has invested more than $3.8 million to welcome Colombia's president. The money was used to more than double the runway at the airport in the coastal city of Jacmel, repair its ...

By Sarah Morland (Reuters) -Colombian President Gustavo Petro arrived in Haiti's southeastern city of Jacmel on Wednesday ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Journalists sit wounded after being shot by armed gangs at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — 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, officials said Tuesday.

More than 5,600 people were killed and thousands more injured or kidnapped in 2024 due to soaring levels of gang violence in Haiti, the United Nations said. In a statement released on Tuesday ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — About 150 military police officers from Central America have arrived in Haiti to reinforce the embattled government’s fight against violent gangs that have upended ...

A contingent of security forces from Guatemala and El Salvador arrived in Haiti's capital Friday to reinforce a long-delayed United Nations-backed mission tasked with restoring security amid a ...

The UN’s top expert on human rights in Haiti on Friday condemned “intentional” attacks on hospitals, clinics and healthcare workers by armed gangs there, warning that medical facilities were already ...

Leslie Voltaire of Haiti's Presidential Transition Council addresses the the Summit of the Future during the U.N. General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2024, at U.N. headquarters. Share ...

From 1697 to 1804, French colonialism and enslaved labor made Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti) the most profitable colony in the Americas. The wealth from coffee and sugar attained by the white ...