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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.
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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.
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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.
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The administration repatriated about 50 Haitians on Thursday, authorities said, marking the first deportation flight in several months to the Caribbean nation struggling with surging gang violence.
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Immigration officials sent dozens of Haitians back to their home country on Thursday, according to three government officials, in the first deportation flight conducted by the United States government in months to the country, which has been gripped by widespread violence.
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Haiti is on the verge of collapse, with little to no government. But many Haitians have already learned to live without the support of the state, as NPR discovered traveling to Cap-Haïtien.
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The Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, citing analysis of the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, reports that some 326,000 migrants from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua have arrived at airports in Florida over the past year
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Though it could take years to wrest Haiti from violent gang rule, many Haitians — including in the private sector — insist the country's "structural violence" has to go, too.
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Officials are eager to see the council in place as Haiti staggers under relentless gang violence that continues to choke the Port-au-Prince capital and surrounding communities.
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Haiti’s National Police says it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours.
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Haiti's violent and powerful gangs are demanding political clout — and as government leaders delay a transitional government, Haitian suffering deepens.
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Heavy gunfire erupted in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital as police battled gang members near the National Palace for several hours.