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Haiti wants to hire private firm to collect border taxes. Not everyone is on board

Haiti’s transitional government is brokering a deal to take control of its porous border with the Dominican Republic, which ...

Trump-Aligned Private Military Boss Deploying Forces To Haiti For 10 Years

Private military executive Erik Prince, a close ally of President Donald Trump, plans to deploy his company’s private forces ...

Ex-Navy Seal’s firm to deploy aid to Haiti to quell gang war

The security firm of former U.S. Navy Seal Erik Prince will soon deploy nearly 200 personnel from various countries to Haiti ...

Trump administration signs on to U.N. chief’s plan for tackling Haiti’s gangs

Six months after United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres proposed that the global organization take on some of the ...

Erik Prince Reaches Agreement with Haiti’s Interim Gov’t to Deploy Nearly 200 Mercenaries

The private military contractor and Trump ally Erik Prince will soon deploy nearly 200 mercenaries to Haiti as part of an ...

Gangs in Haiti kill 2 elite police officers in latest attack against law enforcement

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Heavily armed gang members killed two Haitian police officers in the latest deadly attack on law ...

Dominican Republic rattled by 5.7 earthquake hours after smaller quake off Haiti

A 5.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic early Tuesday, jolting residents awake in ...

Haiti businessman takes over presidency as gangs threaten transition

Haitian businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr took over his country's leadership on Thursday, the last phase of its transition before ...

U.S. charges Haiti gang leader ‘Barbecue’ with evading sanctions

The State Department is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier’s arrest or ...