Haiti

Garry Conille was selected by a transitional council to lead the troubled Caribbean country on Wednesday. He wrote on social media that "Together, we will work for a better tomorrow for all the children of our nation."

Haiti’s bleak humanitarian situation is once again in the spotlight after gangs last week attacked an Oklahoma-based missionary group working in Port-au-Prince, killing two Americans and the Haitian director of the organization, Missions in Haiti.

Police and a religious group say that a U.S. missionary couple was shot and killed by criminal gang members in Haiti’s capital who ambushed them as they left a youth group activity held at a local church.

The Dominican Republic has taken a hard-line stance with Haitian migrants, even as spiraling gang violence drives people to flee. Analysts hope that stance will soften.

Gang leaders with suspected links to the 2021 Haitian president’s assassination now control key infrastructure, and pose a major threat to the incoming Kenya-led force.

Haiti’s main international airport has reopened for the first time in nearly three months after relentless gang violence forced authorities to close it to all traffic in early March.

The gang violence in Haiti’s capital has left more than 2,500 people dead or wounded in the first three months of the year. Some 900 schools have closed across Port-au-Prince as shootings and kidnappings continue.

Barbecue is the man who convinced many of Haiti's gangs to stop fighting each other and start fighting the government. He spoke to NPR about his latest plans.

In a worsening humanitarian crisis, Haitians have been forced to flee their homes in the face of gang onslaughts, but the international response has failed to keep up.

A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti's new prime minister is threatening to fracture a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled country.

Haiti's newly installed transitional presidential council has chosen former Sports Minister Fritz Bélizaire as the country's prime minister as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence.

Henry presented his resignation in a letter signed in Los Angeles, on the same day a council tasked with choosing a new prime minister and Cabinet for Haiti was sworn in.