#Artibonite

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Cristina Garcia Rodero.

Saint Francis of Assisi's cave.

Artibonite, Haiti. 2001.

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Drame à l’Estère : une école attaquée par les bandits criminels, plusieurs élèves et un parent blessés

Le sang ne cesse de couler au niveau du département de l’Artibonite, une zone en proie aux violences perpétrées par les gangs armés criminels. Ce lundi après-midi, des bandits circulant à moto ont attaqué une école à l’Estère. Plusieurs victimes ont été recensés parmi les élèves et un parent. Après le carnage à Pont-Sondé en début du mois, c’est maintenant à l’Estère, dans le Bas-Artibonite que…

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The assault resulted in the deaths of at least 70 individuals, including three infants and ten women, and left many others seriously injured.

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Haiti'de Çete Baskını: 70 Kişi Hayatını Kaybetti

Haiti’nin Artibonite bölgesine bağlı Pont-Sonde kasabasına, silahlı ‘Gran Grif’ adlı çete tarafından perşembe günü büyük bir baskın düzenlendi. Bu zalim saldırıda, aralarında 3 bebek ve 10 kadının bulunduğu toplam 70 kişi hayatını kaybetti. Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) tarafından yapılan açıklamalarda, çatışma sırasında polisle karşı karşıya gelen iki çete üyesinin de aralarında bulunduğu 16 kişinin…

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La PNH assure une écoute attentive aux préoccupations des Artibonitiens

Face à l’inquiétude croissante des Artibonitiens concernant la direction de Paul Ménard à la direction départementale de l’Artibonite de la Police, le Commissaire Divisionnaire Michel Ange Louis Jeune, Porte-parole de la Police Nationale d’Haïti (PNH), a tenu à rassurer la population. Lors d’une récente déclaration, le Commissaire Jeune a souligné que la PNH est pleinement attentive aux…

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Artibonite Department, Haiti

Claudia Altamimi

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Oganizasyon Fanm nan Sid Statement

Haiti Action Committee is honored to publish this statement from Oganizasyon Fanm nan Sid (Organization of the Women of the South). It commemorates the first democratic election in Haiti’s history on December 16, 1990, which brought Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the Fanmi Lavalas Political Organization to power, bringing hope and progressive change for the people of Haiti, only to have the new…

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Le Gouvernement Haïtien Décrète l'État d'Urgence Sécuritaire dans l'Ouest et l'Artibonite

Le gouvernement haïtien a officiellement décrété l’état d’urgence sécuritaire dans les départements de l’Ouest et de l’Artibonite, en réponse à la recrudescence de l’insécurité dans ces régions. La décision a été prise lors du Conseil des ministres le mercredi 17 juillet et sera prochainement publiée dans le journal officiel « Le Moniteur ». Le décret d’état d’urgence a pour objectif de…

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At least 110 mostly elderly people have been brutally murdered by gang members in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, according to a human rights group.

The National Human Rights Defence Network (RNDDH) said a local gang leader had targeted them after his son fell ill and subsequently died.

The gang leader reportedly consulted a voodoo priest who blamed elderly locals practising "witchcraft" for the boy's mystery illness.

The United Nations said the number of people killed in Haiti so far this year in spiralling gang violence had reached "a staggering 5,000".

Warning: This story contains details some readers may find upsetting

While details from the massacre are still emerging, the UN's human rights chief Volker Türk on Monday put the number of people killed over the weekend "in violence orchestrated by the leader of a powerful gang" at 184.

The killings happened in the Cité Soleil neighbourhood of the capital.

According to reports, gang members seized scores of residents aged over 60 from their homes in the Wharf Jérémie area, rounded them up and then shot or stabbed them to death with knives and machetes.

Residents reported seeing mutilated bodies being burned in the streets.

RNDDH estimated 60 were killed on Friday while another 50 were rounded up and murdered on Saturday, after the gang leader's son had died of his illness.

While RNDDH said that all the victims were over 60, another rights group said some younger people who had tried to protect the elderly had also been killed.

Local media said that elderly people believed to be practitioners of voodoo had been singled out because the gang leader had been told his son's illness had been caused by them.

Rights groups said the man who had ordered the killings was Monel Felix, also known as Mikano.

Mikano is known to control Wharf Jérémie, a strategic area in the port of the capital.

According to Romain Le Cour Grandmaison, a Haiti expert at the Global Initiative against Transnational Crime (GI-TOC), the area is small but hard for the security forces to penetrate.

Local media said that residents had been prevented from leaving Wharf Jérémie by Mikano's gang, so news of the deadly killings was slow to spread.

The group forms part of the Viv Ansanm gang alliance, which controls much of the Haitian capital.

Haiti has been engulfed in a wave of gang violence since the assassination in 2021 of the then-president, Jovenel Moïse.

Data gathered by GI-TOC shows there was a decline in the murder rate between May and September of this year, after rival gangs had reached an uneasy truce.

But attempts by the gangs to expand their territory beyond their strongholds in the capital have led to particularly bloody incidents in the past two months, with ordinary residents rather than rival gang members being increasingly targeted.

On 3 October, 115 locals were killed in the small town of Pont-Sondé in the Artibonite department.

That massacre was reportedly carried out by the Gran Grif gang in retaliation for some residents joining a vigilante group to resist attempts by Gran Grif to extort locals.

If confirmed, the death toll given by the UN for this weekend's killings in Cité Soleil, would make it the deadliest incident so far this year.

With gangs in control of an estimated 85% of Port-au-Prince and increasingly large swathes of the countryside, hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been forced to flee their homes.

According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 700,000 people - half of them children - are internally displaced across the country.

Gang members often use sexual abuse, including gang rape, to sow terror among the local population.

In a report published two weeks ago, Human Rights Watch researcher Nathalye Cotrino wrote that "the rule of law in Haiti is so broken that members of criminal groups rape girls of women without fearing any consequences".

Attempts by the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support Mission to quell the violence have so far failed.

The international police force arrived in Haiti in June to bolster the Haitian National Police but is underfunded and lacks the necessary equipment to take on the heavily armed gangs.

Meanwhile, the Transitional Presidential Council (TPC) - the body created to organise elections and re-establish democratic order - appears to be in turmoil.

The TPC replaced the interim prime minister last month and seems to have made little progress towards organising elections.

"They reign over a mountain of ashes," GI-TOC's Romain Le Cour Grandmaison writes of the council in his report.

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Firelei Báez x Vancouver Art Gallery x Downtown.

Man Without a Country (aka anthropophagist wading in the Artibonite River), 2014-15.

ICA Boston art exhibition on dislay until Mar. 16.

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News from Medor, Haiti

This summer 62 students from Medor’s secondary school took Haiti’s 9th Grade National Exam. Students must pass this exam to proceed to the 10th grade. There is great news! All 62 students passed, giving Medor a 100% success rate. The average success rate in the Artibonite Department, where Medor is located, is 83%.  Congratulations to the students, their teachers and parents, Father Frantz, and the entire Medor community for these awesome results. Thank you to everyone at Our Lady Queen of Peace for your support of the education program in our sister parish. Working together, St. Joseph parish of Medor and OLQP, have many awesome accomplishments. Thank you one and all!

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Pont-Sondé : la Police Nationale durcit le ton, la population se mobilise après l'attaque meurtrière des gangs

Deux jours après l’attaque armée du gang de Savien à Pont-Sondé, localité de Saint-Marc, les forces de l’ordre renforcent leur présence dans la zone pour contrecarrer les assauts des bandits. Alors que les affrontements se poursuivent, la population a foulé le macadam. Quarante-huit heures après l’attaque meurtrière du gang dénommé “Gran Grif” à Pont-Sondé, localité située entre l’Estère et…

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Summertime in Andeyò🇭🇹

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Las noticias que provienen de Haití son cada vez más preocupantes. Ociel Alí López* Este lunes se posicionó el nuevo presidente, Leslie Voltaire, en sustitución de Edgard Leblanc que se negó a firmar el decreto de transición del poder. Todo esto, a escasos días de una de las peores masacres ocurridas en las que fueron asesinadas al menos 70 personas en el departamento de Artibonite. Continue reading Haití: el imperio de las bandas criminales y el mundo que no mira

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L'inertie du gouvernement face à l'insécurité persistante en Haïti

Depuis la déclaration de l’état d’urgence dans les départements de l’Ouest et de l’Artibonite il y a plus de 20 jours, les autorités haïtiennes n’ont toujours pas mis en œuvre de mesures concrètes pour contrer l’insécurité grandissante. Cette situation laisse perplexe et inquiète les citoyens qui continuent de vivre dans une insécurité quotidienne grandissante. Malgré les annonces de mesures…

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Voice of America 0307 7 Oct 2024

6080Khz 0259 7 OCT 2024 - VOICE OF AMERICA (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) in ENGLISH from MOPENG HILL. SINPO = 45333. English, s/on @0259z w/Yankee Doodle int fb news anchored by Joe Ramsey @0300z. § Israel’s military ramped up airstrikes targeting Hamas militants in the central Gaza Strip, one year after a Hamas attack on southern Israel sparked a war that includes fighting in Lebanon and concerns about a regional conflict. The Israeli military also said it struck targets used by the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, including attacks on Beirut, parts of southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley. § Crowds were participating in pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protests and memorial events across the world Sunday on the eve of the first anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel. Sunday’s events follow massive rallies that took place Saturday in several European cities, including London, Berlin, Paris and Rome. Other events are scheduled through the week, with an expected peak Monday, the date of the anniversary. In Australia, thousands of people protested Sunday in support of Palestinians and Lebanon in various cities, while a pro-Israeli rally also took place in Melbourne. § Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille embarked on a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya on Saturday to seek security assistance in the aftermath of one of deadliest gang attacks in the Caribbean nation in recent years. Haiti is reeling after members of the Gran Grif gang stormed through the town of Pont-Sonde in the western Artibonite region early on Thursday, killing at least 70 people, including infants, and forcing over 6,000 residents to flee. § Rescue and recovery efforts continue in the southeastern United States following the recent landfall of Hurricane Helene, which was the deadliest since Katrina. Now, a new storm, less than two weeks later, swirls in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening even more damage to the battered region. Hurricane Milton is due to hit the Florida coast on Wednesday. § An oil spill is “highly probable” from a grounded New Zealand navy ship which sank and caught fire off the coast of Samoa, the Pacific island nation’s acting prime minister said on Sunday. Officials in Samoa are conducting an environmental impact assessment in the area where the ship sank on Sunday morning, acting Prime Minister Tuala Tevaga Iosefo Ponifasio said in a statement. @0305z “Daybreak Africa” anchored by James Butty (w/African accent). MLA 30 amplified loop (powered w/8 AA rechargeable batteries ~10.8vdc), JRC NRD-535D. 100kW, beamAz 350°, bearing 84°. Received at Plymouth, MN, United States, 14087KM from transmitter at Mopeng Hill. Local time: 2159.