The tragedy in the Artibonite region, considered the country’s breadbasket, is yet another example of Haiti’s descent into ...

Haitian "self-defense brigades," which claim to protect communities from gangs, are being accused of engaging in violent ...

Haiti, after he and several members of his church were beheaded in an attack. carried out by members of self-defense brigades.

“What they did here had nothing to do with protecting the people,” said the planter, highlighting the terrifying power vacuum in Haiti where so-called self-defense brigades that sprouted up ...

A joint operation by the Haiti National Police and the Kenya-led Multinational Security Support mission failed to regain control of the city. A self-defense citizens’ brigade in Fond-Parisien ...

A weekend of torrential rains and widespread flooding in Haiti have left at least 42 people dead, 11 missing and some 19,000 homeless, the government’s disaster response agency said. The Office ...

RNDDH Executive Director Pierre Esperance said that the members of the self-defense brigades also participated in the clashes against the gang members, while the PNH published on Facebook that a ...

The U.N. said dozens of people have been lynched by so-called self-defense brigades this year. Many of the gang members are convicted criminals, 4,000 of whom have escaped from Haiti’s two ...

Adams Gang violence has killed more than 1,500 people in Haiti so far this year ... with community groups — some calling themselves “self-defense brigades” — attacking people suspected ...

Gang violence in Haiti has killed over 1,500 people so far this year, including many children, while dozens have been lynched, stoned or burned alive by so-called self-defence brigades ...

The group is being portrayed by the media as an effective solution to the problem of Haiti’s gangs ... armed mobs as “civilians” and “self-defense brigades.” Local reporting in the ...