US embassy in Haiti closes

United States announced this Monday that it closed its embassy in Haiti and confined employees inside the compound due to shootings near Port-au-Prince, the capital of the Caribbean country.

The poorest country in Latin America and the Caribbean is mired in a political crisis and a wave of violence by armed groups, which an international security support mission led by Kenya is trying to end.

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"U.S. government personnel have suspended all official movements outside the embassy compound," the State Department stated in an alert message on the social network X.

There are "intense shootings in the Tabarre neighborhood, near the embassy," he says, and recommends that the population avoid the area. Tabarre is a municipality located near the Port-au-Prince airport, northeast of the Haitian capital. At least 3,141 people were killed in the country between January 1 and June 30, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights warned in July.

SOURCE: AFP AGENCY