“Despite the reinforcement of the arms embargo, weapons and ammunition trafficking continue to flow into Haiti and into the hands of gangs,” Ghada Waly, the head of the U.N. drug office, told the ...

Recent weapons seizures in the Dominican Republic have exposed new, sophisticated smuggling routes supplying weapons to ...

Dozens of firearms and more than 36,000 cartridges that were being shipped from the US to Haiti were seized by authorities in the Dominican Republic ... Caribbean island. Gang violence has raged ...

The United States has extended its ban on flights to Haiti 's capital until September 8 due to escalating gang violence, ...

Dominican Republic is urged to stop deporting people to Haiti as people flee surge in gang violence Small trucks with customized cages are ferrying dozens of Haitians every day from a detention ...

The Dominican Republic deported more than 276,000 people ... come amid a worsening political and social crisis in Haiti; gangs are estimated to control more than 80% of the country’s capital ...

wasn’t destined for the delivery in the Dominican Republic. It was “in transit to Haiti,” according to shipping documents obtained by the Miami Herald. As Haiti’s powerful criminal gangs ...