
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Haiti is facing its most most acute humanitarian crisis for more than a decade. There’s been a surge in violence with armed gangs in control of most of the capital. The prime minister has resigned, there’s a month long state of emergency and a curfew has been extended. The gangs have destroyed police buildings and, after storming a prison in the capital Port-au-Prince, thousands of escaped prisoners are back on the streets. Hosted by Lukwesa Burak and Luke Jones, they hear from Haitians caught up in this latest violence
By BBC World Service4.3
16071,607 ratings
Haiti is facing its most most acute humanitarian crisis for more than a decade. There’s been a surge in violence with armed gangs in control of most of the capital. The prime minister has resigned, there’s a month long state of emergency and a curfew has been extended. The gangs have destroyed police buildings and, after storming a prison in the capital Port-au-Prince, thousands of escaped prisoners are back on the streets. Hosted by Lukwesa Burak and Luke Jones, they hear from Haitians caught up in this latest violence

7,913 Listeners

376 Listeners

1,067 Listeners

5,576 Listeners

977 Listeners

586 Listeners

1,729 Listeners

1,018 Listeners

357 Listeners

580 Listeners

965 Listeners

410 Listeners

429 Listeners

746 Listeners

841 Listeners

363 Listeners

1,015 Listeners

3,245 Listeners

1,024 Listeners

779 Listeners

1,010 Listeners

394 Listeners