A Haitian police officer checks a man's papers as they patrol in Kenscoff, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, on August 7, 2025, after two of their armored personnel carriers in the area were damaged overnight. At least 3,141 people have been killed in the first half of this year as gang violence further destabilizes the nation, according to figures released last month by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. With political turmoil also deepening, police said on August 4 they had arrested a former senator wanted for alleged conspiracy against the state, financing criminal groups and complicity in murder.
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Police patrol near the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 19, 2025. More than 60,000 people have been displaced in one month in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince which is "under siege" from a resurgence in gang violence ravaging the country, United Nations migration agency IOM said on March 18, 2025.
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Lovely Jean Baptiste, 16, who was shot in the mouth by armed gangs inside their home, poses for a portrait at the Argentine Bellegarde School, which has been turned into a shelter for displaced people in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on July 17, 2025. More than 3,000 people have died amid escalating gang violence in Haiti since the beginning of the year, the United Nations said on July 11, 2025. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere with swathes of the country under the control of rival armed gangs who carry out murders, rapes and kidnappings. The 500,000-strong Haitian community in the United States is also in an a state of fear and unease as the Trump administration pushes to deport those who fled to the US after the 2010 earthquake. After cancelling an extension of the protective status granted to 520,000 of Clarens's countrymen to February 2026, US President Donald Trump definitively cancelled it in June.
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An aerial view of Port-au-Prince,showing that there is a strong possibility of sharing the HIV virus. in Port-au-Prince,Haiti,June 3 ,2025.Hospitals and orphanages that treat HIV/AIDS patients in Haiti fear the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to reduce more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in global aid worldwide.
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