With the country’s leader having resigned and being stranded in Puerto Rico,gangs are running free and regional partners and Washington have come to the rescue.
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Jose Ulysse,director of the Fontaine Hospital Centre in Port-au-Prince,said police arrived with three armoured trucks to evacuate 40 children and 70 patients.
There were no charter flights from Port-au-Prince to Nicaragua last January. Three daily flights that began in late July had grown to 11 flights a day,said one analyst.
Several people were killed and others injured in Haiti as hundreds of churchgoers,some armed with machetes,proved no match for gang members with assault rifles.
It was a miracle that the Caribbean nation qualified for a maiden Women’s World Cup at all. That the football minnows came close to upsetting England was almost unfathomable.
The reigning European champions are one of the favourites for this tournament. Can their Caribbean rivals pull off what would be a shock at Suncorp Stadium?
The gang kidnapped 17 members of a US-based missionary group and has demanded a $US17 million ransom,according to Haiti’s justice minister.
The US government has been urged to forcibly free the group or negotiate their release without paying a ransom.
They are on the move again,embarking on a dangerous journey to the US with people smugglers managing the trip,say border authorities and refugee groups.