Cite Soleil is a densely populated neighborhood near the port in Port-au-Prince. It's among the most impoverished and violent areas in the small country.

A hospital worker searches for recoverable items from a food depot at the Fontaine Hospital Center the day after it was broken into and robbed during an armed attack on the hospital in the Cité ...

The United Nations has declared Cite Soleil “the most dangerous place on Earth;” this slum of Port au Prince, populated by up to 500,000 people, makes the townships of South Africa look like ...

Gunfire is part of life in Cité Soleil — the most densely populated part of the Haitian capital and the heart of Port-au-Prince’s gang wars.

At least 207 people were killed by members of the Wharf Jeremie gang in Haiti's portside neighborhood of Cite Soleil earlier this month, the United Nations said in a report on Monday, revising up ...

In some parts of Cite Soleil the houses are nearly back-to-back. Their zinc sheeting is bent and rusted, but they are still standing. People are selling yams and other vegetables, and water packed in ...

Amid the squalor of Cité Soleil, Haitians hope elections could be their salvation. Andrew Buncombe, In Port-Au-Prince. Tuesday 07 February 2006 01:00 GMT. Comments. Your support helps us to tell ...

The ghosts in Danish filmmaker Asger Leth’s unsparing documentary are the chimères, armed thugs who preside over the Haitian ghetto of Cité Soleil (“Sun City”), an overcrowded quarter of ...

The documentary Ghosts of Cite Soleil takes viewers through a Haitian slum overrun with political gangs. The film's director, Asger Leth, followed two rival leaders and brothers during the months ...

Ghosts of Cite Soleil. This relentless, in-your-face, verite documentary set in war-torn Haiti during the reign and fall of the Aristide government circa 2004 is an unforgettable, visceral journey ...

Ghosts of Cite Soleil by J.R. Jones August 16, 2007 August 19, 2021. Share this: Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky; Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; ...

Few documentaries could be as different as "March of the Penguins" and "Ghosts of Cite Soleil," a scary, fascinating documentary about gang life in Haiti's worst slum. The comparison comes to mind ...