The G9 gang launches an offensive within Port-au-Prince, with its leader Jimmy Chérizier announcing the aim of capturing the Haitian cabinet and police chief. Four police officers are killed during a shooting outside a police station.[2]
3 March – Between 3,700[3] and 4,000 prisoners escape from the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince. The Haitian government declares a 72 hour state of emergency to recapture them.[4][5]
12 March – Prime Minister Ariel Henry announces that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is formed.[10]
14 March – Streamer Addison Pierre Maalouf, also known as YourFellowArab is kidnapped by members of the 400 Mawozo gang while on a trip to Haiti to interview Jimmy Chérizier.[11]
20 March – Gangs attack the neighborhood of Petion-Ville in Port-au-Prince, killing at least five people.[12]
22 March – Prominent gang leader Ti Greg, who escaped prison earlier in March, is shot dead by police.[13]
2 May – Thirteen people are killed in flooding and landslides in Cap-Haitien.[16]
20 May – Toussaint Louverture International Airport reopens after being closed for three months due to gang violence, as the US military flies in supplies and civilian contractors to help the police in order to pave a way for an intervention.[17]
22 May – A tornado strikes Bassin-Bleu, injuring 50 people and destroying 200 houses.[18]
24 May – Two American Christian missionaries, one of them the daughter of a Missouri State Representative, and a Haitian pastor are killed in a gang ambush in Port-au-Prince.[19]
16 August – Several inmates escape from a prison in Saint-Marc following a strike by prison staff. Eleven of them are subsequently killed in police operations, while a twelfth is recaptured.[24]
20 August – The US imposes sanctions on former president Michel Martelly for alleged involvement in drug trafficking and sponsorship of gangs involved in the Haitian crisis.[25]
4 September – The government extends the state of emergency that it had declared in Ouest Department in March due to gang violence to cover the entire country.[27]
12 September – Twenty-four police and military personnel arrive from Jamaica to help the UN-backed, Kenyan led operation against gang violence.[28]
14 September – At least 26 people are killed and 40 others are injured after a fuel truck overturns and explodes in Miragoane as bystanders were trying to collect gasoline.[29]
Kerwin Augustin, a regional official of the National Office of Migration, is shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Cap-Haïtien.[31]
21 September – Kenyan President William Ruto visits Haiti to inspect the Kenyan peacekeeping contingent.[32]
27 September – The United Nations reports during the first six months of this year at least 3,661 have been killed in Haiti, including 100 children, amid the ongoing gang violence.[33]
30 September – The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to extend the Kenyan-led multinational police mission to Haiti until 2 October 2025.[34] In addition, an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification declares the presence of famine conditions in Haiti, with nearly 6,000 in starvation and nearly half of the country facing Level 4 "crisis" levels of acute food insecurity due to ongoing gang warfare and economic instability.[35]
3 October – At least 115 people are killed in an attack by the Grand Grif gang on Pont-Sondé.[37]
10 October – An unspecified number of casualties are reported in an attack by the Taliban gang on Arcahaie.[38]
12–14 October – Twenty members of the Kraze Baryè gang are killed during police operations against the group in Torcelle.[39]
17 October – Gangs launch attacks on the Solino, Saint Michel and Tabarre 27 neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince.[40]
18 October – The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to expand its preexisting arms embargo on Haiti to include all kinds of weapons and ammunition.[41]
22 October – A boat carrying members of the Viv Ansanm gang capsizes after hitting a reef near Arcahaie, killing at least 12 passengers.[42]
23 October – A UN helicopter is shot at shortly after taking off from Port-au-Prince, forcing it to land again with no injuries recorded among the 18 people onboard.[42]
November
10 November – Garry Conille is removed as prime minister by the Transitional Presidential Council and is replaced by Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.[43]
11 November – A Spirit Airlines passenger aircraft is fired upon by gangs while landing at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, forcing its diversion to the Dominican Republican and the cancellation of multiple flights to Haiti.[44]
6–11 December – At least 207 people are killed in Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince as part of a series of attacks targeting elderly people and voodoo practitioners conducted by the Wharf Jeremie gang, whose leader Micanor Altès accused the victims of causing his son's fatal illness.[47]
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