A Haitian police officer aims his weapon out a window of an armored vehicle during a patrol in downtown Port-au-Prince in January 2026
Currently, gangs control 90 percent of the capital Port-au-Prince, and they killed nearly 6,000 people and injured over 2,700 in 2025, according to the United Nations, with some 1.4 million, or 10 percent of the population, displaced by the violence.
07 February 2026