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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaFear and chaos await Haitian migrants forced back over borderPublished46 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage caption, Undocumented Haitians migrants continue to be deportedBy Will GrantBBC News, on the Haiti-Dominican Republic borderAt the Dajabón border crossing between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, a constant stream of trucks pulls up carrying undocumented Haitian migrants, who are being deported back to Haiti. They are being sent to a nation in the grip of its most acute humanitarian crisis since the devastating earthquake in 2010, which killed hundreds of thousands.Haiti’s already precarious situation has quickly deteriorated over the past weeks as gangs have launched coordinated attacks on key facilities to force the resignation of the country’s prime minister.In total, more than 350,000 people have been internally displaced in Haiti – more than 15,000 of them in the last fortnight. Yet here at the border crossing, the Dominican authorities have been sending back hundreds of undocumented Haitians every day.Dominican soldiers unlock the wrought-iron doors, order out dozens, and send them across the Massacre River into Haiti. Some of the immigrants are furious, shouting indignantly in Spanish and Creole. Others are resigned, holding their children or a few possessions in their arms.”I’d been in the Dominican Republic for three years,” yelled construction worker, Michael Petiton, “they came into my house and took me from my home.”Image caption, Michael Petiton says he had been working in the Dominican RepublicNow he is back in Haiti with only the clothes on his back and a few tools he managed to salvage in a rucksack. He worked hard, he insisted, doing a job most Dominicans did not want.The message the Dominican Republic appears to be sending is: “No matter how bad things become at home, Haitians should not seek refuge on Dominican territory.”Last month, the country’s president, Luis Abinader, demanded in an appearance before the United Nations Security Council in New York that the international community step up aid to Haiti and deploy a multinational force there. He urged the UN to “fight together to save Haiti”, but warned that if no help was forthcoming, his country would “fight alone to protect the Dominican Republic”. Questioned last week about the possibility of receiving Haitians fleeing unrest, Mr Abinader categorically ruled out accepting refugee camps on Dominican soil.Those being returned to Haiti face real uncertainty. Haiti’s prime minister Ariel Henry resigns as law and order collapsesHaiti violence: ‘We’re living with death on a daily basis’The men fighting gang leader Barbecue for power in Haiti”The current situation in the capital city, Port-au-Prince, is a humanitarian catastrophe for its three million inhabitants, and more specifically for women and girls,” said the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)’s Haiti representative, Philippe Serge Degernier. Image caption, Those being returned to Haiti face an uncertain futureThe widespread gang violence has forced many hospitals to close and others are not functioning as fuel and essential medical supplies are held up by the criminal groups. Mr Degernier told the BBC that just one of the 15 hospitals his organisation supports was currently working.”They’re overwhelmed,” he said. “We have estimated that about 3,000 women will not have access to maternity in order to give birth unless the situation calms down soon.”The hope was that some degree of calm might return after the beleaguered prime minister, Ariel Henry, finally acquiesced to the diplomatic pressure and the bloodshed, and resigned.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Gang violence has surged in the Haitian capital, Port-au-PrinceWhile the violence has abated a little since the announcement on Monday, few have any doubt that it could flare up again at any moment.Haiti’s crisis runs far deeper than the resignation of one man. Earlier this week, the US State Department had said that it expected a transitional council to be in place within two days.There is still little sign of one. Rather, there is a power vacuum where the Haitian government is supposed to be, and deep divisions over who would sit on an interim administration.So while most people in the capital, Port-au-Prince, were glad to see the back of their unelected prime minister, many lament the lack of a clear successor.”Henry’s resignation is a good thing, he wasn’t doing anything good for the country,” Ms Benjamin, a stallholder, told the AFP news agency. “Now we must unite to pull Haiti out of this impasse.””Ariel Henry was the biggest obstacle we had. He had to go,” added another resident, Emmanuel. “But we should have had a proper plan in place to replace him.”The country’s main gang leader, Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, has reportedly criticised the deal setting up the transitional administration and there is some speculation that the gangs will want an amnesty for the violence they have carried out.Image caption, The gangs are notorious for targeting the civilian populationJimmy Chérizier may well have designs on becoming Haiti’s leader himself, as do a number of others with criminal pasts and questionable credentials.For the UN Population Fund’s representative in Haiti, though, one horrific aspect of the violence has been largely overlooked in the current crisis: the gangs are increasingly using rape and sexual abuse as weapons of war.They often target women living in areas held by their rivals or even in their own territory as a way to spread fear.”Last year, more than 5,000 women were raped or victims of sexual abuse, and that is unfortunately a very tiny part of the iceberg,” explains Mr Degernier.Most of the time women dare not go to the hospital to be treated, he says, for fear of retaliation, which “can sometimes even include the woman’s murder”.That is the country which awaits the deported Haitian immigrants. The future has rarely looked so uncertain or dangerous.Related TopicsHaitiDominican RepublicMore on this storyHaiti violence: ‘We’re living with death on a daily basis’Published22 hours agoHaiti’s PM resigns as law and order collapsesPublished1 day agoThe gangsters and rebels jostling over power in HaitiPublished1 day agoTop StoriesLive. Gove names groups as he outlines new extremism definition in CommonsAbbott hits out at racism in politics after donor rowPublished2 hours agoDua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline GlastonburyPublished5 hours agoFeaturesSteve Rosenberg on Russia’s stage-managed electionHow a head teacher saved his pupils from a knifemanPost Office victim’s child: ‘Scandal left me mute’Critics say Morning Show star is magnetic on stageReality TV star Vicky Pattison: Why I’d donate my frozen eggs. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaHaiti gangs try to take over Port-au-Prince airportPublished30 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ReutersImage caption, Soldiers have been deployed to guard the international airportBy Vanessa BuschschlüterBBC NewsSoldiers have been deployed to defend the airport of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, from an assault by armed gangs.Witnesses reported hearing shots ringing out in the vicinity of Toussaint Louverture Airport as security forces clashed with armed men.The gangs’ aim is to prevent the return to Haiti of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who is believed to be abroad. Violence has spiralled in his absence with the gangs demanding he resign.Mr Henry left Haiti last week to attend a regional summit in Guyana. From there, he travelled to Kenya to sign a deal on the deployment of a multinational police force to Haiti.His current whereabouts are not known but a spokesman for the US state department said: “It’s our understanding that the prime minister is returning to the country [Haiti]”.While he was in Kenya, a coalition of gangs led by a former police officer, Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, went on the offensive, attacking police stations and storming two of Haiti’s biggest prisons.About a dozen people were killed in the attack on the prisons. Thousands of inmates escaped and remain on the loose. A minister standing in for Mr Henry declared a 72-hour state of emergency.How gangs came to dominate HaitiHaitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste reports that both international and national commercial flights have been suspended for the past days due to the violence. Le Nouvelliste added that no private planes had landed or taken off from the airport either.An attempt by gunmen to breach the airport compound through a hole in a wall was reportedly repelled by security forces.Control of the airport is key to the gangs’ aim of stopping Prime Minister Henry from coming back to the country.The gang leader known as Barbecue has been calling for his ouster since the prime minister was sworn in as the successor to President Jovenel Moïse in July 2021.Already rampant gang violence was further fuelled by the murder of President Moïse by Colombian mercenaries, which left a power vacuum in the country.Armed gangs, wielding weapons smuggled in from the US, have gained control of an estimated 80% of the capital in recent years. Prime Minister Henry has asked the international community to send troops to help fight the gangs. But a plan for Kenya to send 1,000 police officers to help contain the violence stalled after the Kenyan High Court blocked it. Mr Henry was in Nairobi for talks with Kenyan President William Ruto to try to salvage the deployment, when the latest violence flared.In a video posted on social media, Barbecue declared last week that “the first objective of our fight is to ensure that Ariel Henry’s government does not remain in power”.On Saturday, his gang attacked several police stations before freeing thousands of prisoners from the National Penitentiary and from the Croix des Bouquets jail.Only about 100 prisoners remained in their cells at the National Penitentiary, prison officials said. Among those who stayed put were 17 Colombian ex-soldiers suspected of having carried out the assassination of President Moïse.In a video, they pleaded for help, saying that other inmates were trying to get them to leave their cells and were going to use them “as cannon fodder”. The Colombian foreign ministry later announced that the 17 had been transferred to a different prison.Image source, ReutersImage caption, Thousands of Haitians have had to flee their homes in recent weeks and are sheltering in schools and other public buildingsResidents of the capital mainly stayed at home on Monday with only a few people venturing out to get drinking water or food, the AFP news agency reported. Speaking from Haiti, Serge Dalexis from the International Rescue Committee said it had become extremely difficult for people to access basic services such as health care, food and water. “There’s a lack of everything now in Port-au-Prince,” Mr Dalexis said, adding that shooting was being reported in many areas of the city.An estimated 15,000 people have been displaced from their homes over recent weeks due to the violence.Haiti: The basicsPopulation: 11.5 million (estimate)Area: 27,800 sq km (slightly smaller than Belgium, about the same size as the state of Maryland in the US)Location: Caribbean country sharing a border with the Dominican RepublicLanguages: French, Haitian CreoleRelated TopicsHaitiPort-au-PrinceMore on this storyHaiti gangs demand PM resign after mass jailbreakPublished16 hours agoKenyan police to tackle Haiti gang violencePublished3 days agoHaiti leader urges calm as violent protests mountPublished8 FebruaryTop StoriesGirl held and stripped twice by male prison staffPublished3 hours agoChildren starving to death in northern Gaza – WHOPublished9 hours agoUN finds ‘convincing information’ of sexual violence against hostagesPublished2 hours agoFeaturesThe sound that signalled death for IRA ‘informers’In Ukraine, the show must go on – even undergroundWhat is Super Tuesday and why is it important?Inside the Gaza camp for widows and childrenTax, childcare, vapes: What could be in the Budget?Watch: Chinese boats fire water at a Philippine vessel. 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![BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaAfcon: Ivory Coast football fans flock to see Abidjan victory paradePublished1 hour agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Ian Williams/ BBCImage caption, Fans dance in the street as they celebrate the Elephants’ third Afcon winBy Ian Williams & Ameer AhmedBBC News, AbidjanThousands of football fans wearing orange and white have flooded the streets of Abidjan to see the Ivory Coast team parade the Africa Cup of Nations trophy they won on Sunday.The hosts defeated Nigeria 2-1 to win Afcon for a third time, prompting huge celebrations across the country.Cecilia, who was born in Ivory Coast but now lives in the US, told the BBC she had travelled home for the final.”That’s the best decision of my life,” she said.Image source, Ameer Ahmed/ BBCImage caption, A football fan awaits the arrival of the national team in AbidjanIvory Coast were unlikely winners. They lost two group games and fired their manager mid-tournament. Emerse Fae, a youth-team manager, took over for his first job leading a senior team. Four games later, he was lifting a trophy. Juliette Youan told the BBC: “Emerse Fae is a hero of Ivory Coast.””We are so proud to celebrate our hero. Vive Emerse! Emerse is the best coach,” she added. Ms Youan and her friends made special T-shirts to commemorate Fae for leading the country to victory.Image source, Ian Williams/ BBCImage caption, Footballs fans made T-shirts to celebrate coach Emerse FaeThe parade began at Hôtel Palmier and the crowd built slowly from around midday, becoming more boisterous as the parade’s scheduled start time approached.As numbers grew, so did the noise, with horns blaring and chants breaking out, accompanied by dancing. At around 15:00 GMT, the first players suddenly appeared on the flatbed truck that would take them on their journey through Abidjan to the over 30,0000 capacity Félix Houphouët Boigny stadium for a trophy presentation.The banners on the truck announced the Elephants as “Champions of Africa 2023″ and featured three stars, a nod to the fact that the team has now won this competition on three occasions.Their underdog story resonated throughout the streets as people danced, rejoicing in their amazing comeback.”It’s amazing. The first part of the tournament was very difficult but afterwards the players played very well and today we are very happy. Today we have to do some parties, it’s obligatory,” said Kwaku, another fan at the parade.Image source, Ian Williams/ BBCImage caption, Ivory Coast players celebrating their victoryLooking relaxed in short-sleeved training tops, sunglasses, baseball caps and with gold medals around their necks, the players smiled out at the adoring crowds, leaning against the barrier, taking selfies and waving the Ivorian flag. At one point, captain Serge Aurier even helped lift a young fan onto the truck for a photo before handing him back to his waiting father.Image source, AFPImage caption, Ivory Coast won Afcon for a third timeIvory Coast’s tale of triumph was made even better as the goal that clinched the trophy for the team was scored by Sébastien Haller, who had been diagnosed with testicular cancer a few months ago.”We hoped to get to this point and once again the match wasn’t an easy one. The joyous scenes we see now, what’s happening in the country, they deserve it too. I really hope it does a lot of people good,” said Haller.”We are very, very proud of our three stars on our jersey. 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