In Haiti, schools have traditionally been considered respected safe zones, regardless of the country’s crisis of the moment. Not anymore. Schools are increasingly targets of armed violence, the United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roc Auxène walked the premises of one of the oldest schools, Lycée Pinchinat de Jacmel in this sun-swept southern city on a recent ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — No chairs. Missing blackboards. A lack of bathrooms. Schools in Haiti’s capital and beyond are crumbling as gang violence deepens poverty and disrupts basic government services ...

More than 100 Haiti students, some as young as 6 years old, are trapped inside their Catholic school in downtown Port-au-Prince as a fresh round of violence continued to erupt between armed groups.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, July 3 (Reuters) - Majorie Edoi sells food from a stand in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince - or she used to, until a conflict with armed gangs cut off the city from suppliers, paralyzed ...

DAJABÓN, Dominican Republic — Kelvin Vensy sits for hours on end on a metal barricade that separates Haiti from the Dominican Republic, holding on to a cardboard box with wax candles. Subscribe to ...

At 24 years old, Megan Boudreaux Anderson founded Respire Haiti, a nonprofit created to fight for the freedom of Haiti’s estimated 300,000 child slaves. After moving to Haiti in 2011, Anderson started ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The rumor shot like electricity through the Haitian capital: Another school was falling. Desperate parents and would-be rescuers ran through alleys, leaped over walls and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 100 Haiti students, some as young as 6 years old, are trapped inside their Catholic school in downtown Port-au-Prince as ...