Before Saturday’s shooting, a local gang boss had made threats to the prime minister… EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Prime Minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, escaped an assassination attempt on Saturday during an event celebrating the country’s independence, his office said. Henry was targeted by “bandits and terrorists” who opened fire at a church … Read more
The Christian missionaries were seized shortly after leaving the town of Croix-des-Bouquets… A group of US Christian missionaries and their family members, including children, are reported to have been kidnapped by an armed gang near Haiti’s Port-au-Prince. At least 15 people were taken off a bus after visiting an orphanage, Haitian security sources have told … Read more
Moise had tapped Henry to replace Joseph as prime minister in the days before the president was shot dead in his home… Haiti’s interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, who has run the country following the assassination of president Jovenel Moise, will step down and a new government will be formed with Ariel Henry as prime … Read more
Investigators are yet to establish whether the rest of the commando unit was ever informed of the true aim of the mission. Colombian mercenaries arrested for allegedly taking part in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise have confessed that they were hired to capture him and hand him over to the US Drug Enforcement … Read more
The arrested suspect, identified as 63-year-old Christian Emmanuel Sanon, entered the country on a private jet in June… Haitian authorities have arrested a man they say helped orchestrate the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, the country’s police chief announced on Sunday. Moise was killed Wednesday in his Port-au-Prince home, in an attack that has shaken … Read more
So far, 17 have been arrested, and at least three were killed. A handful remain at large, according to the police. The widow of slain Haitian leader Jovenel Moise, who was critically wounded in the attack that claimed his life, on Saturday issued her first public remarks since the assault, calling on the nation not … Read more
Three suspects were killed by police and eight are still being sought A group of 28 foreign mercenaries, including retired Colombian soldiers, assassinated Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse earlier this week, the police have said. After a gun battle in the capital Port-au-Prince, 17 were detained, some at the house they were using, others after entering … Read more
In the wake of the Haitian president’s assassination, one of the big questions is who will succeed him. The question of who will succeed the slain Haitian President, Jovenel Moïse, may not elicit a straightforward answer, according to Jean Wilner Morin, the president of the national association of Haitian judges. He told CNN that the … Read more
The president faced steep opposition from swathes of the population that deemed his mandate illegitimate, and he churned through a series of seven prime ministers in four year Haiti President Jovenel Moise was assassinated at his home early Wednesday morning by a group of armed individuals, interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph has announced. Joseph said … Read more