Ebba Sisile

Top News 2025 Haiti News. In haiti, gangs have killed hundreds of people and shot journalists at a news conference, exposing the country’s fragility and the government’s failures. • haiti remains the poorest country in the latin america and the caribbean (lac) region and among the poorest countries in the world.

Offering haiti’s young people alternatives to gang life and strengthening local institutions are key for the caribbean nation to “reclaim its position as a symbol of hope,”. More than 5,600 people were killed and thousands more injured or kidnapped in 2024 due to soaring levels of gang violence in haiti, the united nations said.