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The work of U.S. and Canadian missionaries kidnapped in Haiti over the weekend included helping rebuild homes following an August earthquake on the island, according to their Ohio-based organization that has aid projects all over the world.
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By Gessika Thomas and Brian Ellsworth PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti s 400 Mawozo gang, which kidnapped a group of U.S. and Canadian missionaries over the weekend, started out as small-time local thieves and rose to become one of the country s most feared gangs that controls a rural area east of the capital Port-au-Prince, according to security experts. The group is seeking $17 million for the release of 16 Americans and one Canadian who were in Haiti as part of a missionary visit, boosting global attention on the country s kidnapping problem, which has worsened amid economic and political crises. Criminal gangs in Haiti kidnapped at least 119 people, including the missionaries, during the first half of October alone, the Port-au-Prince-based Center for Analysis and Research in Human Rights said on Wednesday, marking a clear escalation over even the previous month. The 400 Mawozo, a self-mocking name that loosely translates to 400 idiots, controls the city known as Croix-des-Bouquets
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, which kidnapped a group of U.S. and Canadian missionaries over the weekend, started out as small-time local thieves and rose to become one of the country's most feared gangs that controls a rural area east of the capital Port-au-Prince, according to security experts.