Haiti security intelligence, district by district
What Sentry View monitors in Haiti, how the country is divided on the map, and how each report is classified before it reaches you. This page describes the coverage and the method: it shows no reports, zones, routes or assessments.
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What Sentry View covers in Haiti
Haiti is represented in an atlas of 42 districts; data availability and recency vary by district: security, incidents, humanitarian situations and politics, with territorial and route assessment. Every record is georeferenced and carries a category, the date of the event, a confidence level, a cited source, an estimated area of influence and the date of its last verification.
Four categories
- Security — clashes, kidnappings, extortion, sexual violence, security operations, arson, among others.
- Incidents — flooding, landslides, earthquakes, storms, power outages, fuel shortages, accidents.
- Humanitarian — displacement, disease outbreaks, malnutrition, child protection, education disruption, blocked humanitarian access.
- Politics — protests, elections, judicial decisions, legislation, armed-group territorial control, international intervention.
Three confidence levels
| Level | What it means |
|---|---|
| Confirmed | Verified by direct observation, or corroborated by two sources independent of each other. |
| Probable | A single source considered reliable, or consistency with other reports from the same area and time. |
| Unverified | Received and logged, not corroborated. This is the default: a report starts unverified and only moves up when something justifies it. |
Validity
Every territorial layer and every route segment carries an expiry: from 15 minutes for traffic status to 30 days for a stable territorial assessment, with 6 hours as the usual value for a zone. When a layer expires it is marked as “needs review” and stops counting as verified. The full criteria are in the methodology.
The 42 districts in the atlas
The operational map divides Haiti into its 42 districts (arrondissements), grouped by department. Reports are placed by their coordinates and counted in the district they fall in; a district can also carry an editorial profile. A district with no colour on the map does not mean it is safe: it means there is no data for it.
| Department | Districts |
|---|---|
| Artibonite | Dessalines, Gonaïves, Gros-Morne, Marmelade, Saint-Marc |
| Centre | Cerca-la-Source, Hinche, Lascahobas, Mirebalais |
| Grand’Anse | Anse-d’Hainault, Corail, Jérémie |
| Nippes | Anse-à-Veau, Baradères, Miragoâne |
| Nord | Acul-du-Nord, Borgne, Cap-Haïtien, Grande-Rivière-du-Nord, Limbé, Plaisance, Saint-Raphaël |
| Nord-Est | Fort-Liberté, Ouanaminthe, Trou-du-Nord, Vallières |
| Nord-Ouest | Môle-Saint-Nicolas, Port-de-Paix, Saint-Louis-du-Nord |
| Ouest | Arcahaie, Croix-des-Bouquets, La Gonâve, Léogâne, Port-au-Prince |
| Sud | Aquin, Chardonnières, Côteaux, Les Cayes, Port-Salut |
| Sud-Est | Bainet, Belle-Anse, Jacmel |
Port-au-Prince: traffic corridors
Haiti moderators create, name and draw Port-au-Prince corridors along the streets. There is no fixed catalogue of seven avenues. Each corridor shows its latest current status or turns grey when it has no current observation.
Manual or measured field updates include status, direction and observation time, and last 15 minutes. A moderator can review a pass recorded in route mode and publish the corridor status with its average speed; the personal route is never published.
The automatic TomTom layer is complementary: where the provider has no data, it draws no flow. That absence does not mean the road is flowing freely.
Vehicle flow does not establish whether a road is safe. Routes and zones have their own confidence and validity. An expired corridor returns to “no data”, never to “free flow”.
How access works now
Access is private and requires approval. Create an account to request access; until a moderator approves it for the relevant region, it receives no reports, layers, traffic or news. An invitation code can also enable access.
Payments and free trials are paused. Approved member accounts do not expire during the pause. Operational content remains restricted to moderators of the relevant region.
Where the information comes from
Every report states its provenance, and that provenance is shown on the incident card. There are four possible origins: direct observation (including aerial observation), a cited external source (always linked to the original), information received through direct contact (logged without identifying the sender), and automated news intake.
For Haiti, the automated intake reads headlines from a fixed set of outlets: Haïti Libre, Ici Haïti, Juno7, AyiboPost, Haïti Liberté, Le Quotidien 509, Haiti24 and ReliefWeb (OCHA). Headlines sit in a separate panel, clearly kept apart from verified reports, and are deleted after 60 days. A headline is not a report: it is a lead to investigate.
What you will not find here
- Locations of humanitarian organisations’ offices, residences or teams.
- Names of people who report, and anything that could identify them.
- Exact coordinates of reports for anyone without a verified account.
- Attribution of territorial control to groups or individuals, outside moderation accounts.
- Any report, zone, route or assessment on this page: it describes coverage and method only.
Two limitations shape how the map should be read. Coverage is uneven: there are more records where there is more connectivity and more sources, and the absence of a report does not mean nothing happened. And verification is documentary, not forensic: we do not perform image analysis or technical geolocation of received material. No decision that puts a person at risk should rest on this information alone.
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Questions, corrections or information: gerencia@sentryuav.app. See also Africa: security monitoring by country and the methodology.