Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and senior foreign producer Dominique van Heerden have answered your questions after a reporting mission took them into the middle of Haiti's gang violence crisis. Catch up in the stream below.
Tuesday 20 May 2025 16:47, UK
Thank you for watching as Stuart and Dominique answered your Haiti questions.
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And watch their report from the gang-riddled capital Port-au-Prince here:
Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and senior foreign producer Dominique van Heerden are here to answer your Haiti questions live over the next 30 minutes.
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Watch along live in the stream at the top of the page as they share their experience reporting from the capital Port-au-Prince, 90% of which is run by lawless gangs.
And you can send in your questions as they chat to join in the conversation.
Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and senior foreign producer Dominique van Heerden will answer your questions live at 3.30pm this afternoon after a reporting mission took them into the heart of Haiti's gang violence crisis. You'll be able to watch it live here.
Submit your question in the box at the top of the page and read the full eyewitness report from the capital Port-au-Prince below.
By Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent in Haiti
A group of school children in their smart uniforms skip past us, overseen by their mums and dads.
In front of us, the highway is empty of all cars except for two armoured police vehicles slowly making their way up a hill.
The children and their parents are on "Airport Road", which leads into the centre of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The airport is a few miles away to the north.
The parents are leading the children to an intersection where they will turn right towards their homes.
Everything beyond that intersection is gang territory, and nobody ventures past it but the police, who appear to be probing the gangs' defences.
This part of the Airport Road, beyond the intersection and stretching for miles, is an area controlled by the gangster Jimmy Cherizier, known here and abroad as "Barbecue".
The security forces are desperate to capture Barbecue, himself a former policeman, and to dismantle his gang.
As the families near the intersection, automatic gunfire bursts from the turret of one of the armoured police vehicles. Instantly the children and their parents run for safety, hugging a wall - they know what is about to happen.
Within seconds the police are being attacked with volleys of machine gun fire. We watch holding our breaths, and thankfully all the children make it round the corner to the relative safety of a side street.
They live on the edge of what's called the "red zone" where the gangs control the streets.
Security forces want to take it back.
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