Haiti

KeithBinns/Getty Images (PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — Haiti is under a state of emergency and nighttime curfew amid a surge of violence, after armed gangs attacked the Caribbean country’s two largest prisons and freed scores of inmates. The Haitian government declared the 72-hour state of emergency on Sunday evening and imposed a curfew from 6 p.m. to […]

RICHARD PIERRIN/AFP via Getty Images (PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — U.N. Secretary General António Guterres made his first-ever visit to Haiti on July 1 to impress urgency upon whomever would listen as the country struggles with gang violence and ravaging food insecurity. “Every day counts,” he said. “If we do not act now, instability and violence will […]