The Latest Breaking News from Haiti

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MIAMI — A group of between 100 and 200 Haitian migrants arrived offshore of the Florida Keys Saturday afternoon, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The first time her phone rang, Lenise Georges didn’t believe the news. Her sister and 1-year-old niece were dead, the caller, another niece, said, explaining that their boat had capsized off the coast of Nassau, Bahamas, and that everyone onboard had died.

Authorities say at least five Haitian migrants have drowned and 68 others have been rescued after a suspected human smuggling boat dropped the group off in waters near an uninhabited island west of Puerto Rico

A string of recent arms-trafficking scandals in Haiti, including the discovery of weapons in a shipping container labeled as church donations, has ignited anger over a steady flow of U.S. guns that are fueling rampant gang violence.

Haitian gangs waged intense gun battles on Wednesday in Port-au-Prince, shuttering main avenues and a municipal market in the downtown area of the capital.

The student said the child was covered in ants and the crowd of people around him were reluctant to get involved.

MIAMI — Nearly all of the dead victims recovered from a Miami-bound migrant boat that overturned Sunday in the Bahamas were women, the second time in two months that an overwhelming number of Haitian women have lost their lives in a vessel that capsized.

Jimmy Amisial found an abandoned baby in a bin and took him in when he was just 22 years old has now applied to legally adopt the little boy and officially become his dad.