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Drone attack in Haiti slum kills 8 children: Residents blame police for strike; UN-backed mission still short on manpower, funding

A drone attack targeting a suspected gang leader killed at least eight children and injured six others in Cité Soleil, a gang-controlled slum of Haiti’s capital, relatives and activists told The ...
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Raped, widowed, homeless: Haiti's slum women abandoned to gangs

As the first bursts of gunfire rang out, the women from La Saline slum grabbed their kids and fled for cover. Iris Daniel, 57, Lovely Saint-Pierre, 32, and Evanston Daniel, 5, pose on May 25, 2019, ...
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Haitians mourn victims of drone attack in gang-controlled slum

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of Haitians attended a collective funeral Saturday for eight people killed in a drone attack last month in a gang-controlled slum in the capital Port-au-Prince.
Southeast Missourian

Battle rages in Haitian slum, this time against a disease

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A wooden wheelbarrow is pushed to the high green gates of a slum hospital, carrying an unconscious woman, her lips white and cracked with dehydration. She is 22, and two days ...