Haiti

The FAA is banning all civil aircraft from operating over Haitian airspace for the next 30 days, after gunfire ripped through a commercial flight.in Port-au-Prince.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday said it is banning U.S. planes from flying less than 10,000 feet above Haiti.

Haiti’s airport is temporarily closing as gangs were attempting to take control of it, the US Embassy reported Monday.

A Spirit Airlines flight Florida to Haiti was diverted to the Dominican Republic on Monday after the aircraft was struck by gunfire when it attempted to land in Port-au-Prince.

A Spirit Airlines flight traveling from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was diverted to the Dominican Republic after the aircraft was struck by gunfire Monday, the airline confirmed in a statement.

Haiti’s newly selected prime minister, Garry Conille, was hospitalized late Saturday in the capital of Port-au-Prince just days after arriving in the country, the government said.

The attack happened Thursday evening in the community of Lizon in northern Port-au-Prince

Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker said his daughter and her husband were attacked as they left a church.

A U.S. missionary couple and a Haitian man who led a religious group were shot and killed by criminal gang members in Haiti’s capital after they were abducted.

Ariel Henry resigned Thursday as prime minister of Haiti, leaving the way clear for a new government to be formed in the Caribbean country, which has been wracked by gang violence.

As gangs take over Port-au-Prince with rifles, machine guns and other weapons, the U.S. is trying to seize the weapons at a facility in South Florida before they leave the country.

Armed gangs are launching new attacks in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince, with heavy gunfire echoing across once-peaceful communities near the Haitian capital.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Kingston, Jamaica Monday where he spoke about the escalating crisis in Haiti.

Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced early Tuesday that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created, capitulating to international pressure that seeks to save the country overwhelmed by violent gangs that some experts say have unleashed a low-scale civil war.

The U.S. military said Sunday that it had flown in forces to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and allow nonessential personnel to leave.

Authorities in Haiti have ordered a nighttime curfew after an explosion of violence as gang gunmen overran the two biggest prisons and freed thousands of inmates.

A judge in Haiti responsible for investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles.

Kenya’s parliament has approved the deployment of 1000 police officers to Haiti to help deal with rising gang violence in the Caribbean nation.

The aid will help to control violent gangs in the troubled Caribbean country.

After she and her child were kidnapped in Haiti, Alix Dorsainvil, a nurse from New Hampshire, released a statement with an update on how she’s doing.