June 25, 2024 Main Gate airport Kenyan Airways touched down and 400 Kenyan police entered Haiti to help Haitian National Police disband and disarm 200 gangs. 2100 additional police will follow from Caribbean and African countries; the exact dates of their arrival has not been disclosed.

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As Kenya’s President Ruto visits Washington today, concerns mount over U.S.-backed plan to quell violence in the gang-embattled nation Washington pledged its financial and logistical support for the mission in a defense agreement with Kenya signed in September 2023. It was then that Kenya committed to deploying 1,000 troops to Port-au-Prince. The mission is also expected to…

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The latest assault by Haitian gangs left three people, including two American missionaries and a local pastor, dead in Port-au-Prince. The victims were the founders’ son, David Lloyd III, 23, known as Davy; his wife, Natalie Lloyd, 21; and the organization’s Haitian director, Jude Montis, 45, the group said. Ms. Lloyd is the daughter of…

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Houses burned. Stores and market stalls—the fruit of years of labor—were abandoned. Life savings and passports and family photographs were lost as an entire community fled into the mountains. With no phones and no way to coordinate, the displaced scattered from Cabaret, heading wherever instinct guided them or wherever they thought they might know someone.…

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With six-year-old Sarah and nine-month old Little Joel, we returned to Haiti. Jeff promised to give back the Fontamara home, as soon as he found one in Petionville. While Jeff searched for a house, we stayed at Andy’s, his parents were out of the country.  There we met Open Bible Standard, Mission Director, Paul Canfield.…

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Yvonne purchasing from a Marchand

Port au Prince’s main street, Gran Rue, though marked Boulevard JJ Dessalines, for Haiti’s first governor general, leads to the Iron Market. Fabricated in Paris for an Egyptian train station, the flat packed structure ended up in Port au Prince in 1891, no one knows why. Two massive ironwork buildings with cavernous thirty-foot doomed ceilings…

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UN Relief Web report and map on Haitians forced by gang terrorism to flee their homes. Most leave all belongings behind as gangs take over sections of Port au Prince. https://reliefweb.int/report/haiti/haiti-testimonies-internally-displaced-persons-idps-july-2023

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Abandoned at birth, Joel was adopted and grew up fishing, hunting, and enjoying beautiful Canandaigua Lake. At age thirteen, his parents accepted a job managing a hotel away from the Lake, Joel loved. They left the boy in an empty house, next door to his grandmother to finish eighth grade.  By the time he was…

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Our wedding was in a small Fort Lauderdale clapboard church. We spent all the money we had $150.00; this included my ring from Service Merchandise, the white bridal satin for my homemade dress, a cake, flowers and candles from Publix’s. The little church did not have a foyer, so I sat in the church van…

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