Insecurity in Haiti: "It is the revelation in hollow of the collapse of the State"
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A state of emergency was declared in March in certain neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince due to the increase in violence (photo illustration).
Valerie Baeriswyl AFP
By: Florent Guignard
8 mins
Yesterday, Sunday April 11, five priests and two nuns were kidnapped at Croix-des-Bouquets in Haiti.
The 400 Mawazo gang claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and demand a million dollar ransom.
According to the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti, kidnappings are constantly increasing - over 200% between January and May 2020, according to the report from last September.
Violence is plaguing the country, to the point that a state of emergency was declared in March in certain neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince.
Update on the security situation with Jean-Marie Théodat, lecturer in geography at the University of Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne, author of
Haiti, Dominican Republic.
An island for two
(Karthala editions).
Haiti
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