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Haiti taps security minister

Haiti’s health minister loses his job after a deadly gang attack on a hospital in the capital

Haiti’s health minister has been removed from his post following a deadly gang attack on the largest public hospital in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

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Haiti gang attack on journalists covering a hospital reopening leaves 2 dead, several wounded

Haiti’s online media association said two reporters were killed and several others were wounded in a gang attack on Tuesday on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital.

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Haiti taps security minister to fill in as interim health minister after hospital reopening attack

Haiti on Thursday tapped the nation's security minister to fill in as interim health minister, the official gazette showed, two days after armed men fired on a planned hospital reopening event hosted by the previous health minister,

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Gang violence has gripped Haiti. See dramatic photos documenting the impact on children

This gallery showcases photos taken in Haiti by Goran Tomasevic, a photographer for Canada’s Globe and Mail. Tomasevic and Haitian journalist Yvon Vilius documented the collapse of civil authority in ...

Armed men fire on Haiti hospital reopening, killing at least 3

At least three people were killed and others injured on Tuesday when armed men opened fire on a group of journalists gathered ...

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To cover Haiti, our photographer had to face the dangers of getting there and the horrors he found

But his work in the past year covering the gang takeover of Haiti has been perhaps the hardest assignment of his life, he ...

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For Haiti’s kids, servitude in gangs, death on the streets leave little room for a future

The nine-year-old boys wearing matching knapsacks walk down the street in the morning light, but they are not going to school. In their hands are loaded guns, and the boys know how to use them. One ...