Sources: AFP via Global Post
Haitian gangs launch a large-scale attack on the Ouest and Artibonite departments, causing hundreds of people to flee. Police say the gangs now control 50% of Artibonite, including the town of Pont-Sondé. 2025-12-1
Armed gunmen from the Gran Grif gang commit a mass shooting with automatic rifles and a series of arson attacks in the town of Pont-Sondé, Haiti, killing at least 70 people and seriously injuring 16 others, with a local government prosecutor describing the incident as a massacre. 2024-10-3
One person is killed, another injured and 14 rescued after an overcrowded boat capsizes off the coast of Haiti. 2023-06-3
The death toll from the fuel tank truck explosion in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti, six days ago rises to 90. 2021-12-20
Haiti reports the first outbreak of the African swine fever in 37 years when an operation in Anse-à-Pitre near border with the Dominican Republic suffered an outbreak that began on August 26. 2021-09-21
The death toll rises to 9 as protesters ask for Jovenel Moïse to step down as president of Haiti. The protest started February 7. 2019-02-14
An overnight fire destroys parts of Haiti's historic Marché en Fer (Iron Market) in Port‑au‑Prince. It is unclear what started the fire. 2018-02-13
Matthew's death toll in Haiti rises to at least one thousand, with victims being buried in mass graves. An unknown number of people remain missing and authorities report that cholera is spreading in the hardest hit-areas in the country's southwest. 2016-10-10
Chile confirms its first case of sexually transmitted Zika virus. The case involves a 46-year-old woman whose partner was infected while in Haiti. 2016-03-26
Former Haitian President Jean Bertrand-Aristide returns to Haiti, two days before a general election. 2011-03-18