Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency on Sunday after thousands of inmates apparently escaped from its largest prison during a surge of gang violence that has upended the Caribbean nation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The escalation of gang violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, has prompted hospitals to close, caused a shortage of medical ...

Three weeks after 200 specialized Kenyan police officers were deployed to Haiti to lead the Multinational Security Support mission, a second contingent of the same size arrived in Port-au-Prince on ...

Outnumbered and outgunned - that's the status of the police force and United Nations-backed peacekeeping mission in Haiti as the transitional government there struggles against a coalition of gangs.