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10 Most Infamous Black Serial Killers from Africa Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi A Morocco public letter writer and cobbler turned serial killer, drugged and murdered his victims and then robbed them of their belongings. He was assisted by a 70-year-old woman known as Rahali. Mesfewi murdered over 36 women, 26 were buried under his shop and remaining ten also buried in another property which he owned. Raya And Sakina The murderous sisters of Egypt were the first women to be publicly executed for joint killings of minimum 17 women. These sisters formed a team of five which included their male partners and an accomplice involved in drug, prostitution, and murder. With the purpose of robbery, it was easy for the team of five to hold down their female victims at different body parts and wait till they are suffocated to death to take the loot. Elias Xitavhudzi Elias Xitavhudzi Pangaman Another Atteridgeville murderer, a South African known as "The Pangaman" as a result of his ruthless use of the machete to torture kill and dismember the white victims he targeted. He is believed to be a psychotic social activist killer because of the race of his victims. In November 1960 he was hanged for killing a total of 16 Caucasian male and female. Moses Sithole Moses Sithole A South African popular known as the ABC Killer relating the first alphabets of the town he perpetrated the killing spree: Atteridgeville, Boksburg, and Cleveland. He was sentenced to 2,410 years and eligible for parole after 930 years which will never happen, because he should most likely be long dead. Most recent report in theyear 2000 on Sithole is that he has been infected with the HIV virus while in prison. Maoupa Cedric Maake Maake was a serial rapist and killer from South Africa, popularly known as the Wemmer Pan Hammer Killer. He terrorized the Wemmer Pan area by attacking and killing men and women with a hammer, raping and clubbing them to death. His unique signature, however, was that he stole the victim’s shoes. He was charged with a total of 1,340 years in prison for the 134 crimes he committed between 1996 and 1997. Charles Quansah Also known as the Kumasi strangler, Charles was arrested in 2000 for the murder of his girlfriend and later, many more female bodies found in a supine position with their legs opened wide, having been raped and strangled were attributed to him. The Ghanaian had first been jailed for rape in 1986 and so it was not a new habit. Unfortunately, after his arrest, the killings and serial murder still continued leading to a political and public menace with the death count rising up to 34. Could it be a copycat or is the real serial killer at large? Abdelaali Hadi Abdelaali Hadi Another Morroco Killer who attacks male teenagers, known as the Taroudant serial killer, started his vile acts of attacking, gagging, raping and killing his victims in 2001. In 2004, the bodies of nine male teens were discovered under a shack where Hadi had worked. He admitted to the killing saying he enjoyed suffocating his victims while he abused them sexually. He was sentenced to death in 2004. Another interesting read: Top 10 Most Popular Boy Names in Benin Jimmy Maketta Jimmy Maketta A psychopath and a serial killer of South African decent attacked and killed 16 victims who worked as farm laborers in Cape Town between April to December 2005. He was convicted of 19 counts of rape in 2007. Mansour al Tourbini Ramadan Mansour Al Tourbini This Egyptian is known as the most bizarre serial killer in Africa, he formed a gang of street children who engaged in rape killing and abducting other street children. Most of the killings were committed on moving trains from Cairo to Alexandria, up in the carriage roofs he and his gang will rape and kill the children and toss them overboard which is where he got the name al-Tourbini literally means express train”. Mansour buried some of his victims alive along the banks of the River Nile. In 2006, he was captured for 30 street children he killed and sentenced to death in 2007. After death, his name became commercialized in his hometown where he had taxis, sandwich, and lambs named after his popular nickname, al Tourbini. David Thabo Simelane David Thabo Simelane A Swaziland serial killer was convicted of rape and robbery in 1976; he denied the charges of rape and began a killing spree out of anger at the wrong accusation. In 1997, he lured women and children into the woods of Malkerns feigning holding job prospects. He killed and buried them in shallow graves with the help of Vilakati an accomplice, whose end later came in 2001 when he was shot dead by the police. Simelane was sentenced to death in 2011 after being found guilty of 28 murders including pregnant women. https://www.facebook.com/jamaicafirst... https://twitter.com/JamaicaFirstco2 https://www.instagram.com/jamaicafirs... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLlF...

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Ashanti Smith had been living with the ultra rare premature ageing condition Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, which saw her age eight years for every year of her life. https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2UKgRi_0b3aU0yr00 Ashanti Smith had been living with the ultra rare premature aging condition Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome - when she turned 18 she was able to enjoy a cocktail Credit: Kennedy News Tragically, the 18-year-old died on July 17, telling her heartbroken mother that she had to “let me go”. Her mum, Phoebe Louise Smith said her daughter lived her life to the fullest and had refused to let the illness affect her “loud and beautiful spirit”. Despite her body being the equivalent of a 144-year-old when she passed away, Ashanti was still able to enjoy turning 18 in May with a night out, drinking her favourite cocktail. The teen died with her mum, dad Shaine Wickens, 33, and a family friend, Kayleigh Cartwright, 25, by her side. Distraught mum-of-four Phoebe who lives in West Sussex has now shared details of her daughter's funeral, which she hopes will feature four white horses, feathers, Pride flags and BTS memorabilia - as Ashanti was a huge fan of the K-Pop band. Her friends have launched a JustGiving page to help crowdfund for the send off which they say will help celebrate her life. Phoebe said: "Ashanti's life was a joy. Even though progeria affected her mobility, it didn't affect anything else. "She was a typical, stroppy 18-year-old and I loved everything about her. She was brilliant, she was gobby. She spoke her mind and everyone knew it. https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=04N5Vr_0b3aU0yr00 Ashanti and her mum Phoebe were able to have a girls' night about before she died earlier this month Credit: Kennedy News What is Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome? PREGORIA is a rare condition which is sometimes referred to as the ‘Benjamin Button’ condition Progeria causes accelerated ageing, with sufferers commonly displaying ailments associated with old age. The Progeria Foundation says: “Children with Progeria begin to display many characteristics of accelerated ageing within the first two years of life. “Progeria signs include growth failure, loss of body fat and hair, aged-looking skin, stiffness of joints, hip dislocation, generalized atherosclerosis, cardiovascular (heart) disease and stroke. “The children have a remarkably similar appearance, despite differing ethnic backgrounds. Children with Progeria die of atherosclerosis (heart disease) at an average age of fourteen years.” People with progeria often have small, frail frames compared to their heads, and have a distinctive appearance of a shallow jaw and pinched nose. They also suffer full-body alopecia – where they have no hair. Often the physical appearance caused by their condition becomes more pronounced as they get older. "It didn't affect her heart, her willpower or the way she felt about herself - she felt beautiful every day. I made sure of it every day. "Everyone loved and adored that little girl. She touched their hearts so much with her willpower.” On the day Ashanti died, Phoebe said she had been walking around the park as normal, and had even enjoyed a KFC. “Then it came on suddenly and it was about half an hour. "She struggled but she said 'Mum, I love you. You've got to let me go'." GIRLS' NIGHT OUT Phoebe insists that Ashanti had been treated like other teenagers and had even tried a Sex on the Beach cocktail with her mum and her friends to celebrate her 18th birthday. Phoebe said: "She was louder - louder than me - and I'm a very loud person. "There are photos of her first getting ID'd. We all took her out to the

The women, named locally as Amália and Amanda Alves, were forced to kneel before being shot in the back of the head because they "knew too much" about a drug deal, it is claimed. https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3sWUSQ_0b3nsnbI00 Twin sisters Amália and Amanda Alves were killed in a gruesome Instagram livestream Credit: Instagram https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1nMj8Z_0b3nsnbI00 The 18-year-olds were forced to kneel on the ground before being shot in the head in Brazil Credit: Instagram Footage of the gangland shooting has since been viewed thousands of times, according to Brazilian media. The 18-year-old women, both said to be mums, were killed on the side of the road behind a property complex in Pacajus. Their bodies were discovered hours later. Amanda leaves behind a three-year-old daughter, while Amália's son is just six months old. A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being questioned by police. The sisters were forced to lift up their hair into a bun before the suspect fired the fatal bullets, Jornal de Brasília reports. He is then accused of blasting two more shots at one of the sisters before firing another four bullets at the other's body. Video footage streamed live on social media captured the sisters' harrowing final moments.

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Kenyan National Francis Ngugi Arrested for Allegedly Poisoning Two Toddlers in Canada BABY killer Francis Ngugi, 45, was apprehended on Sunday and was later charged with two counts of administering a noxious substance to endanger life. He is also facing two separate counts of unlawfully causing bodily harm and one count of criminal negligence causing death. One of the children who died was three-year-old Bernice Nantanda Wamala. She was sleeping over at a friend’s home in March when she and her friend consumed the poison-laced cereal. According to Wamala’s mother, Maurine Mitembe, the cereal gave the two a form of reaction which eventually led to vomiting and a visit to the doctor. The deceased was treated but after sometime of life support, she succumbed. Her friend survived, Ms Mitembe told CTV News. Read: Authorities Launch Search For Kenyan Keegan Oyugi Who Went Missing In Minessota “She was healthy, happy, and dancing on Saturday, then the next day she’s gone,” Mirembe told the Toronto Sun. The suspect is according to Toronto Sun, the ex-boyfriend of the surviving toddler’s mother. The two apparently ended things the month before the said incident but remained friends. Police say that Ngugi laced the Golden Morn cereal with a controlled substance he retrieved from his place of work . “Both children required hospitalization. One of the children, due to the consumption of the cereal, died in hospital. The other child recovered after a lengthy hospital stay,” Detective Matthew Wighton of 41 Division said in a statement on Monday. A probe into the incident by the police and Ontario Coroner’s Office wound up with Ngugi’s arrest after it was established that the cereal was deliberately contaminated. Ngugi is still in custody awaiting a bail hearing. A GoFundMe page started to help raise money for Wamala’s funeral has so far amassed more than Sh2 million.

.Kenyan SERIAL KILLER" who targeted children Masten Milimo Wanjala, 20, was arrested Wednesday in connection to the killings of two children whose bodies were found in a wooded area of the capital, Nairobi, the country's Directorate of Criminal Investigations said Wednesday. But in a disturbing confession, Wanjala admitted to the "cold-blooded murders" of at least 10 young teens, police said. "In a nerve-wracking blow-by-blow account, the murderer recounted harrowing details of how he lured victims to his killer jaws before squeezing dear life out of the innocent children," the Directorate of Criminal Investigations wrote on Twitter. Authorities said he was a "bloodthirsty vampire" who targeted children between the ages of 12 and 13. Masten Milimo Wanjala confessed to the murder of ten children in Kenya. Masten Milimo Wanjala confessed to the murders of 10 children in Kenya. DCI Kenya He allegedly drugged his victims with a white substance in powder or liquid form, then drained some of the children's blood before killing them, police said. "Wanjala single-handedly massacred his victims in the most callous manner, sometimes through sucking blood from their veins before executing them," police wrote on Twitter. The killing spree allegedly began five years ago with a 12-year-old girl he kidnapped in Machakos county east of Nairobi, police said. Officials removing the body of a child found in a wooded area in Nairobi. Officials removing the body of a child found in a wooded area in Nairobi. NTV Kenya At least some of the victims died by strangulation, and several of their bodies have not been found, police said. "The murderer who is unapologetic over his actions told detectives that he derived a lot of pleasure from killing his victims," police said. "As detectives pursue crucial leads to the recovery of the rest of the bodies, it is our belief that the criminal justice system will serve justice to the innocent souls and relieve the heavy hearts of the mourning parents, siblings and Kenyans in general." #kenya #jamaicafirstcountryfirst #

Bully WASN'T" Like Bulbie, Tesha Miller etc. This Is Why. Bully killed 70 people: one of Jamaica notorious bad man. HIS DEMISE CAME FROM, FIGHTING WITH LONG TIME FRIEND WALDIE. ITS VERY UNFORTUNATE. A SIMPLE TALK AND REASONING COULD HAD HAVE SOLVE THIS ISSUE BUT EGO PREVAILED Gunmen struck at the nightclub Live Wire Enterprise which was former called La Roose in Portmore, St. Catherine Wednesday night killing four persons, including a man who was on the police most wanted list. A fifth person was also injured. The attack occurred shortly before midnight at the back of the night spot and is the second killing to occur at the popular hangout in just over a year. La Roose was reportedly in full swing when armed men entered and opened fire. Ricardo Thomas otherwise called "Bully", who is reportedly one of the operators of La Roose, his brother, Kirk Thomas, and another man who is known only as "Mampy Zeeks" are three of victims who are from Kingston addresses. A police source told RJR News that the early morning attack may be linked to a shooting which occurred in Olympic Gardens also in Kingston last weekend. Checks revealed that Ricardo Thomas was on the country's most wanted list and was nabbed by the police at a house in Barbican, St. Andrew on October 18. It was reported that he was in possession of two nine millimetre pistols and 49 rounds of ammunition. However, there was a surprise turn in the case when he walked free despite pleading guilty to gun charges. Thomas was given three years probation and fined $1 million in the Gun Court in December. He was also linked to an 18 month upsurge in violence in Cockburn Pen, Kingston in which 60 persons were killed and was also wanted for the 2004 murder of Devonde Lawla on White Walk in Kingston. In March 2008, eight persons were shot at the Portmore club during the popular British Link Up Dance when Clifton Reid, 47, of Lincoln Road, Kingston was killed. #bully #waldie #crime #jamicafirstcountryfirst #cockburnpen #thejamaicanpeoplechannel

Who is involved in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise? The names of Claude Joseph, Léon Charles, Marky Kessa mentioned in the text ¿Quién es quién en el asesinato del presidente de Haití? The big question posed by the special envoy to Port-au-Prince of the Colombian newspaper El Espectator trying to provide some answers. Something that is certain for the moment, unlike the amalgamations of Guichard Doré and Alfredo Antoine, the Haitian opposition would have found itself above the fray. The montage is produced by the Colombian newspaper El Espectator. Look with your eyes. Wednesday, July 21, 2021 ((rezonodwes.com)) - Who is who in the assassination of the President of Haiti? There is little detail on what happened on the night of July 6-7 in Haiti's presidential residence. The medicolegal report on Jovenel Moïse reveals that his murder was savage and even involved acts of torture: 12 bullets, including one in the eye, as well as a fractured skull are the marks left by the assassins. And although authorities have made progress in the investigations, more and more names are added to the list of suspects in the assassination. So far, it is known that the masterminds allegedly planned the crime during a meeting at a hotel in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. There are photos of the meeting allegedly attended by financial officials and the masterminds of the assassination. Police arrested 23 people, including 18 Colombian ex-servicemen who were part of the assassin squad and five American citizens of Haitian descent; 24 presidential security agents were placed under precautionary measures. Here are the main personalities suspected in the assassination, according to the Colombian daily El Espectador : Christian Emmanuel Sanon On Sunday, July 11, Haitian police chief Léon Charles said three men had been arrested as alleged sponsors of Moses' murder, but on that day he only gave the name of one. alone: ​​Christian Emmanuel Sanon, 63, doctor and pastor of Haitian origin who has lived for many years in Florida, United States. According to the investigation, Sanon contacted a Venezuelan security company called CTU, based in the United States, to recruit members of the commando that allegedly carried out the assassination. “ He entered Haiti at the beginning of June. He was accompanied by some of the mercenaries who were originally supposed to ensure his safety. The mission changed when one of the attackers was presented with a court order to bring in the president, ”Charles reports. Sanon was reportedly contacted by the mercenaries when the Haitian national police blocked the advance of the commando who had just committed the crime. During a raid on Sanon's home, they say, police found six shell casings, around 20 boxes of bullets and a DEA cap, which they say links him to the murder as the hitmen who broke into Moïse's house posed as agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He is now in detention. Antonio Intriago Colombians arrested in Haiti and charged with alleged participation in the murder said they were hired by the Miami-based CTU Security company run by Venezuelan Antonio Enmanuel Intriago Valera, according to the Miami Herald on July 12. " The CTU of Intriago is officially registered under the name of Counter Terrorism Unit Federal Academy LLC, and was incorporated in Florida in 2019 under its name, and has filed annual reports during the two successive years ", reports the American newspaper . A source who claims to have met Intriago in Venezuela told the outlet that the man was known to provide firearms, gun parts, and military and police equipment, such as bulletproof vests. State license records show that Intriago is licensed to provide security services and carry a firearm. “A man of many contacts, the mysterious Venezuelan who sometimes calls himself Tony sold security equipment to the Sweetwater Police Department. Intriago has also supplied products to private security companies in Latin America and its Instagram page shows that his company has trained potential security forces , ”a Nuevo Herald post read. Walter Veintemilla He runs a small financial services company in Miramar, Florida called Worldwide Capital Lending Group, and Haitian authorities have accused him of helping finance the assassination project. The Washington Post reported on July 15 that Christian Emmanuel Sanon met with several people, including Antonio Intriago and Walter Veintemilla, in Fort Lauderdale on May 12 to discuss the future government of the country once Moses is no longer in power, with Sanon becoming the new Prime Minister of Haiti. Worldwide Investment Development Group and CTU Security would set up a private security force to protect Sanon until he becomes president of Haiti, according to an unsigned draft document obtained by the Post. " Sanon would finally reimburse them for their services using the country's assets, according to the

Authorities in Mali on Wednesday said they had opened a probe into an attempt to assassinate strongman interim president Assimi Goita, Goita was the figure behind two coups in less than a year in the Sahelian country. Prosecutor Bourama Kariba Konate said in a statement that an inquiry has been opened “to shed light on the event.” Goita was whisked away after a man armed with a knife lunged at him after prayers for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha at a mosque in Bamako. He later appeared on state TV to say he was doing “very well” and downplayed the significance of the assault. The suspect has been described only as a teacher but most of his identity has not been revealed. He remained in custody on Wednesday while police interviewed witnesses, commissioner Sadio Tomoda told AFP. Bamako was calm after the assault, according to AFP journalists. Wednesday was a public holiday to mark the Eid Muslim festival. The attack capped months of political turmoil in Mali. Goita, a special forces colonel in his late thirties, staged a coup last August that ousted elected president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita after weeks of protests over graft and rising insecurity arising from jihadist insurgency in the north.

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A convicted cocaine trafficker is among the suspects that authorities in Haiti are pursuing in connection to the middle-of-the-night murder of former President Jovenel Moïse, raising questions about whether organized crime had any role in the high-profile assault. Rodolphe Jaar, a former drug smuggler and US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant, is wanted by the national police for murder, attempted murder and armed robbery alongside former Haitian government official Joseph Félix Badio and well-known opposition politician John Joël Joseph, Le Nouvelliste reported. According to local media reports, National Police Chief Léon Charles also announced the arrest of former rebel group leader Gilbert Dragon and businessman and US resident Christian Emmanuel Sanon for their suspected involvement in Moïse’s assassination. Authorities are still looking for several other fugitives presumed to be connected to the crime, including a Venezuelan businessman who owns a security company allegedly linked to the murder. This comes just one week after an armed commando of foreign mercenaries allegedly shot the president 12 times at his home in Port-au-Prince early July 7, killing him and wounding First Lady Martine Moïse. At least 26 former Colombian soldiers and two other Haitian-Americans are suspected of participating in the attack. However, some of the Colombian soldiers - 21 of whom have been killed or arrested - told The New York Times that they had been recruited to “fight gangs, improve security, protect dignitaries and democracy and help rebuild a long-suffering country,” not kill the sitting president. Authorities in Haiti are also looking into members of the former president’s security team, none of whom were injured in the killing. SEE ALSO: Who Was Behind the Killing of Haiti's President? In Jaar’s case, the Dominican Republic’s National Drug Control Agency (Dirección Nacional de Control de Drogas - DNCD) arrested him in mid-2013 in the capital city of Santo Domingo, where he had reportedly been living in a luxury hotel. US prosecutors indicted Jaar, who also used the alias “Whiskey,” earlier that year on charges he conspired to smuggle cocaine into the United States. Court records show that Jaar later pleaded guilty to those charges and was sentenced to 46 months in prison. At his sentencing hearing in 2015, his lawyer called the case against him “slightly unusual” because he was “cooperating with the DEA at the time of the offense, making them aware of a drug shipment that was coming into Haiti, a 425-kilogram load of narcotics. And he was in contact with agents that were on the ground.” In other court filings related to his plea agreement, Jaar admitted to helping smuggle cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela, through Haiti and on to the United States between early 2010 and April 2013. Jaar “was present at negotiations concerning the shipment of the cocaine from Colombia and/or Venezuela to Haiti and assisted in these negotiations. [He] was in charge of arranging security so that the cocaine load could land in Haiti at a clandestine airstrip,” according to court documents. InSight Crime Analysis There is still little clarity on who actually fired the shots that killed the former president and why. But dividing the political from the criminal is extremely murky in Haiti. Armed gangs have long brokered mutually beneficial deals with politicians, who secure political support in exchange for turning a blind eye to criminal activity. And while the systematic sacking of state resources through government corruption has often acted as one of Haiti’s main criminal economies, the country has also been exploited by international drug smugglers. It has for years acted as a key stopover point for South American cocaine shipments, despite not grabbing as much attention as its neighbors in the Dominican Republic. Arguably one of the most prominent cocaine traffickers to emerge from Haiti in recent years was Beaudouin "Jacques" Ketant. He was eventually convicted in the United States for operating a smuggling ring that bribed local police and other government officials to move hundreds of tons of cocaine from Colombia’s Medellín and Norte del Valle cartels through Haiti and into the United States. Ketant claimed to have paid millions in bribes to former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. “He turned the country into a narco-state,” Ketant infamously charged in a Miami courtroom in 2004. Aristide denied those claims and was never charged but was ousted and forced into exile after a second US-backed coup d'état in 2004. He returned to Haiti in 2011 and is now battling COVID-19 in Cuba. In 2015, Ketant was released from prison and deported back home.

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A Chicago-based rapper was shot and killed after he was struck by 64 bullets across the street from the jail that he had just been released from on Saturday, July 10, 2021. According to the police report, rapper KTS Dre was ambushed by more than one assailant in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago shortly after exiting the infamous jail, the Chicago Tribune reports. An unidentified 60-year-old woman who was with KTS Dre, whose birth name is Londre Sylvester, was struck once in the knee, but she is expected to survive. A female bystander was reportedly grazed in the mouth by one of the dozens of bullets. “It appears Sylvester was the intended target while [the women] were inadvertently struck,” the police report states as obtained by the Tribune. Not surprisingly, KTS was rushed to a local hospital where he was officially pronounced dead at 9:25 p.m. on Saturday. Ironically, KTS had a target-looking tattoo on the front of his neck. KTS was outfitted with an electronic monitoring device, then released. He was walking with the older woman to a waiting vehicle when “several unknown (suspects) exited two separate vehicles and all began to shoot in Sylvester’s direction, striking him numerous times,” according to the police report. Police are hoping that the shooters will be identified as the block where KTS Dre was shot is equipped with multiple surveillance cameras. The police report stated that the assailants got into different cars after the shooting and took off in different directions.

HAITIAN PRESIDENTIAL GUARD Dimitri Herard, visited Colombia a few weeks before ASSASSINATIONDimitri Herard, the head of the General Security Unit of the National Palace (USGPN, by its French acronym), is the subject of a US law enforcement investigation related to arms trafficking in Haiti, according to multiple sources both inside Haiti and the United States. Earlier this week, the president of Haiti was assassinated in what Haitian government officials have claimed was an elite commando raid of the president’s private residence. As head of the palace guard, Herard is one of the individuals most responsible for the safety of the president. The USGPN is responsible for securing both the palace and the president’s private residence. On Thursday, July 8, the chief government prosecutor in Port-au-Prince requested that Herard present himself for questioning in relation to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. A source close to the deceased president, requesting anonymity out of fear for their life, claimed that Moïse was personally aware of the US investigation into Herard, and that Moïse had told them that “the US is taking care of it.” Herard, in 2012, was one of a small group of Haitians sent to Ecuador under then-president Michel Martelly to train at the Eloy Alfaro Military Academy. He eventually entered the president’s palace guard and became head of the USGPN in February 2017 after the inauguration of Moïse. Despite Herard’s high-level presence within the USGPN, he also operates a private security company. The practice, while a clear conflict of interest, has become increasingly common among police officers in recent years. In April 2020, Carl Frederic Martin, a Haitian-American and former US Navy officer, together with the sister of Dimitri Herard, created Tradex Haiti S.A., a security company. Another company, this one Florida-based and owned by Martin, received a $73,000 State Department contract in November 2019 to provide “riot gear kit[s]” for a specialized unit of the Haitian National Police (PNH). In late August 2020, I reported on Martin’s State Department contract, the new security company he had formed with a relative of Herard, and their attempts to create a weapons manufacturing company called HOFSA. The activities of Martin and Herard came directly after the arrest of businessman Aby Larco, accused of being a significant source of arms trafficking in Haiti. Larco and Martin had formed a security company together years earlier, though they eventually ended the partnership. Seven days after Larco’s arrest, Martin and a relative of Herard filed the paperwork to incorporate their new arms manufacturing company, though its business license was eventually revoked. Three days after the publication of the late August report, a “news” website was created that quickly published a fake news article alleging I had been paid by members of the Haitian elite to destabilize the country. “Coming back to Haiti to further destabilize a democratically elected government will prove to be harder for time to come,” the unsigned article warned. The website’s “About Us” page is a direct copy and paste from the website of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, replacing the organization’s name with “Haiti News Hub.” In the more than a year and a half since Larco’s arrest, however, the flow of black market weapons into Haiti has only increased, fueling rising insecurity and violence. Kidnappings reached a peak of nearly four a day early in 2021, and, according to security experts, have provided armed groups with significant resources to purchase new weapons and ammunition. Individual ransom payments have reached hundreds of thousands of dollars. In late June, former police officer and leader of the G9 Family and Allies, Jimmy Cherizier, held a press conference with dozens of armed men displaying high-powered weapons. Police officers and government officials often complain that they lack the resources or firepower to properly counter armed civilian groups. At the same time, many of those groups draw upon support from current and former police officers as well as politicians and private sector actors. US law enforcement has been increasingly interested in the network bringing illegal weapons into Haiti and its relation to kidnappings. In March 2021, two individuals, Peterson Benjamin and Lissner Mathieu, were arrested in Haiti and brought to the United States. Benjamin was quickly indicted on charges related to his alleged involvement in a criminal enterprise responsible for the kidnapping of a US citizen in Haiti. Mathieu was apparently arrested in connection with a decade-old drug trafficking case. When he was arrested, Mathieu had in his possession a badge from the National Palace. The government denied that he had ever been employed in the palace.