American woman Alix Dorsainvil and her young child have been freed and are safe after being kidnapped in Haiti roughly two weeks ago.
A Haiti kidnapping has been reported. El Roi nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter were taken Thursday. Americans are warned not to travel there.roughly two weeks ago, according to a statement from El Roi Haiti, the nonprofit where she worked.
This undated photo provided by El Roi Haiti on July 31, 2023, shows Alix Dorsainvil with her husband Sandro Dorsainvil, founder and director of El Roi Academy & Institution Mixte.Dorsainvil and her young daughter were taken from the El Roi compound outside of Port-au-Prince on July 27 and had been held since then. Negotiations to free her started shortly after she was taken, according to a Haitian law enforcement source.
The kidnapping came as the U.S. Department of State ordered the evacuation of family members of U.S. government employees and non-emergency U.S. government employees in Haiti on July 27. The U.S. government's travel advisory for Haiti is "do not travel due to kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure," according to the State Department.
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