Haiti

Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (TPC, or CPT using its French acronym) ended its tumultuous and unhappy two-year run on Saturday, stepping down with the country still in chaos and its final major effort — to unseat U.S.-backed Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime — completely ignored.

With Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian migrants set to expire on February 3, 2026, former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) — who is running for the U.S. Senate in 2026 — is calling on the administration to extend the designation, citing economic disruption in Ohio communities and the lack of a safe place for Haitians to return.

A pair of Haitian immigrants is accused of carrying out a multi-million dollar food stamp fraud scheme in Boston, Massachusetts, including defrauding a nonprofit food program meant for starving children in their native Haiti.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) is complaining that if President Donald Trump deports Haitian migrants, jobs will go “unfilled.” 

The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday approved a U.S. proposal to add more personnel and funding to the security mission in Haiti, which has been overrun by violent gangs ever since the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in July 2021.

Anthony Franck Laurent Saint-Cyr, the head of Haiti’s Presidential Transitional Council, proclaimed it is not the time for “Haiti fatigue.”

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that President Trump can end the protected status bestowed by Biden on about 430,000 migrants.

Businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr took over as head of Haiti’s transitional government on Thursday, a few hours after infamous gang boss Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier told residents of Port-au-Prince to stay out of the way while his forces overthrow the government.

A district court judge, appointed by former President George W. Bush, has stopped President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants living in the United States.

President Donald Trump’s DHS is terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for tens of thousands of Haitian migrants.

A mob of angry Haitian citizens stormed a hydroelectric plant in the town of Mirebalais on Wednesday, plunging the capital city of Port-au-Prince into darkness, in an attempt to protest the lack of government action against gang violence.

The U.N. High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday released its annual Global Trends Report, which found a record high of 123.2 million people were displaced from their homes around the world due to “persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, and events seriously disturbing the public order.”

Dozens of Haitians on Sunday marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince to demand the resignation of Interim Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé and the Transitional Presidential Council amid an escalation of gang violence.

Officials from the Trump administration have reportedly notified Congress they plan to designate Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, a move that would authorize sanctions for any entity or corporation that provides material support for the gangsters.

A federal judge stopped the Trump administration on Monday from ending deportation protections for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.

Thousands of Haitian citizens marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday to protest escalating gang violence.

Two Kenyan police officers were seriously injured in battles with Haitian street gangs this week, while an officer who went missing last week has reportedly been killed – the second fatality in Kenya’s peacekeeping deployment to gang-ravaged Haiti.

Haitian gang boss Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier over the weekend threatened a “violent reprisal” after police raided his stronghold in Port-au-Prince’s Delmas neighborhood, the newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported on Sunday.

A Haitian migrant charged with triple murder came into the U.S. via a humanitarian parole program during former President Joe Biden’s administration, according to reports.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem rescinded the Biden administration’s decision to extend Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by 18 months.

A senior State Department official confirmed that the State Department has granted foreign spending freeze waivers for Haiti.

Specialized members of Haiti’s National Police together with members of the Kenyan-led multinational security mission to Haiti over the weekend launched a major security operation to crack down on pre-Carnival activities organized by 400 Mawozo, one of the nation’s largest gangs.

The president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, Leslie Voltaire, greeted 70 police officers from Guatemala and El Salvador at the airport in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday.

Haitian gangsters opened fire on a government press conference at Haiti’s largest public hospital on Tuesday, killing two journalists and a police officer. The Viv Ansanm gang said it committed the atrocity because it controls that portion of Port-au-Prince, and did not give the hospital permission to resume operations.

American Airlines has backtracked on its plans to resume flights to the gang ridden nation of Haiti in February, company officials said.

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said on Monday that up to half of Haiti’s armed gang members are children, employed as “informants, cooks and sex slaves” in addition to being “forced to perpetrate violence.”

Hundreds of Haitians packed their belongings and fled from previously secure districts of Port-au-Prince on Thursday as a running battle broke out between gangsters and police.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a notice on Tuesday banning all flights to Haiti for at least 30 days following three gun attacks on planes flying to the capital city of Port-au-Prince.

A Spirit Airlines flight was battered by gunfire while it attempted to land in Haiti on Monday, leading to an injured flight attendant and a diversion to the Dominican Republic.

A United Nations helicopter was hit by several rounds of gunfire while flying over Haiti on Thursday, forcing the chopper to land in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

The United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said on Tuesday that the situation in the impoverished and violence-torn nation has “regrettably worsened” because ambitious gangs are now attacking territory they do not control yet, rather than merely terrorizing people on the turf they already rule.

Where were Haiti’s elite anti-gang police on October 3 when more than 88 Haitians were murdered by gangs in a rural town?

Haitian gangs are bolstering their manpower by recruiting more young boys as child soldiers, while young girls become sex slaves.

Haiti’s prime minister, Garry Conille, traveled to Kenya and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday to plead for security assistance after a vicious gang attack on the farming town of Pont-Sonde on Thursday killed at least 70 people and displaced 6,000 more.

The Dominican Republic plans to implement an “immediate” program to deport as many as 10,000 migrants per week, mostly Haitians.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) claimed at Tuesday evening’s vice presidential debate that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s mobile app for migrants at the southern border has “been on the books since 1990.”