A nurse and her child, both Americans, have been kidnapped amid crime and unrest in Haiti's capital, a nonprofit connected to the woman said Saturday.
A nurse and her child, both Americans, have been kidnapped amid crime and unrest in Haiti's capital, a nonprofit connected to the woman said Saturday.
The group, El Roi Haiti, said in a statement that Alix Dorsainvil, a community health nurse married to its founder and director, Sandro Dorsainvil, and the pair's child, were kidnapped Thursday morning from its location near Port-au-Prince.The State Department said Saturday it's aware of reports of the kidnapping, is in contact with Haitian authorities,"and will continue to work with them and our U.S. government interagency partners.
“The U.S. Department of State and our embassies and consulates abroad have no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas," the department said in a statement.nonemergency U.S. government employees and families to leave Haiti “due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure.”
Gangs have taken over a vast majority of Port au Prince's street geography, making crime and chaos rampant and prompting more than 165,00 Haitians to abandon their homeland, according to a"Gang attacks, extrajudicial killings, kidnappings and gender-based violence have become part of the daily lives of Haitians, forcing locals to flee their homes," the U.N. said in June.The
in 2021 precipitated the chaos, as the nation's government never recovered from the shock to its leadership.
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