Haiti 400 Mawozo Gang Leader Extradited to US

One of the leaders of Haiti’s most powerful gang, 400 Mawozo, has been extradited to the US for smuggling weapons and kidnapping US citizens.

Haitian authorities said, Germine Joly, known as Yonyon, was taken on an FBI plane to Washington on Tuesday.

He had been in jail in Haiti for several years before his extradition.

Joly’s gang was responsible for last year’s kidnapping of 17 Christian missionaries, who were held hostage for two months.

Last week, 400 Mawozo also kidnapped a diplomat from the Dominican Republic.

Carlos Guillén, the trade attaché at the Dominican embassy in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, was seized by gang members while he was travelling to his home country, which is located on the same island as Haiti.

BBC/Taiwo Akinola