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Armed gangs try to take control of Haiti’s main airport after jailbreak • FRANCE 24 English

  • March 5, 2024



Armed gangs try to take control of Haiti’s main airport after jailbreak • FRANCE 24 English

Haiti is entering its second night of um state of emergency and curfew um the situation remains fragile there reports of uh gun uh gunfire uh around the airport at least this afternoon and there are some reports to that effect tonight so the situation remains very fragile and uh very uh difficult for

Most folks in the city do do people feel safe coming out on the streets uh when they’re allowed to of course with the curfew in place uh well most folks had expected to have a difficult or disrupted uh week this week since Thursday when the violence started to wage over the city

Uh but with the um confirmation that there was a state of emergency and a curfew uh people knew that they it was pretty much a loss week for them now the state of emergency has of course been declared uh in the absence of uh the Prime Minister Arian enri he’s been in

Kenya to sign a deal to bring in this much talked about multinational police force where are we on this and how’s that idea being viewed in Haiti uh well for the most part the first off the whereabouts of the Prime Minister remain unknown and the I the

The schedule or the timeline for the deployment of the police officers the Kenyan police officers remains unknown to this point uh while the situation it seems to uh very quickly degenerate in town and perhaps would require a very quick intervention wherever be coming from but at this point uh some Outlets

Uh including the Miami Herald just reported that the White House ruled out any uh foreign any uh American intervention direct intervention in Haiti right now

Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the country’s two biggest prisons.

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23 comments

  13. Haiti has the world's SECOND largest supply of iridium. The USA will now be taking that from you. Another US backed coup, that's why you see all the US made weapons.

  16. Where are the "heroic" western bois to save the day? (When nobody asked them to).

    Oh wait it's different rules for different countries. And Haiti is not geopolitically significant (i.e. nothing to steal).

    Kinda sad.

  20. Is Hillary Clinton coming the the rescue again, or more importantly can she use this mess to enrich herself again. Even if it isn't the Clinton's I'm sure there will be some leader somewhere swooping in to "help" the poor Haitians, which really translates to exploit and take money or bleed some charity foundation they've set up, of course for the people affected. Poor Haiti doesn't even stand a chance. But hey there's a good chance some rich person will get another Yacht for their fleet. Greedy people can't ever miss an opportunity to turn other peoples blood into cash for themselves.

  21. All Haitians need to go back and fight for there country. They left women and children behind! The US doesn’t need any cowards. You disgraced your country!

  22. If the gangs want to end the corruption in there government, why the hel are they hurting women? Why are civilians so afraid of the gangs. These gangs should be protecting there people!

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