Gunfire paralyses Haiti as powerful gang leader says he will try to detain police chief, ministers

Gunfire paralyses Haiti as powerful gang leader says he will try to detain police chief, ministers

Once again residents in Porto Pras flee as gunshots resonate throughout the capital another day of heavy fighting on the Caribbean island haes gang leaders may say that they’re fighting for peace but residents lives have turned into a nightmare I fled my neighborhood when my husband was killed in front of me but

Then they set fire to my house again this is all I own everything I can carry I find myself dragging my things through the streets I’m 62 I can’t take it anymore several police officers were killed this Thursday the gangs targeted a police station a police academy and shot at the Island’s main

Airports violence has soared across the capital after the assassination of President chauan El Miz in 2021 and before the attacks began the leader of G9 one of hati’s biggest gangs said he now aims to force the interim president prime minister Arya Lorry to step down from Power we’re asking residents not to run

Away when they see us the guns that you see now will turn against the people’s real enemy we’re not firing at residents or the working people we’re going to bring down Ariel and all the corrupt politicians Ariel was supposed to step down in February allowing Haiti to hold

New elections that hasn’t happened since Thurs st’s violence took place while H was abroad in Kenya the Prime Minister struggling to finalize a un approved mission to deploy Kenyan police to Haiti to help end the violence as gunmen now control the capital almost entirely

Heavy gunfire paralyzed Haiti’s capital Thursday, and at least four police officers were slain, as a powerful gang leader announced that he would try to capture the country’s police chief and government ministers. The move came during the absence of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who is in Kenya trying to finalise details for the deployment of a foreign armed force to Haiti to help combat gangs.
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