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Haiti is facing further turmoil as former Prime Minister Ariel Henry has said that only he can appoint the transitional council needed to take over leadership of the beleaguered Caribbean nation.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A fuel truck explosion on a road in Haiti's southern peninsula on Saturday killed 24 people and left half of the 40 injured survivors with third-degree burns, the ...
Dorsainvil told CNN living under that constant specter rekindles some of the fear he felt in Haiti. “I was saying to myself, ‘Oh OK, I come here to find some peace and I fled my country ...
Amid the unrest in Haiti since 2018, armed gangs stormed Haiti 's two largest prisons in March 2024, resulting in more than 4,700 inmates escaping. The gangs demanded that prime minister Ariel Henry resign, attacking and closing Toussaint Louverture International Airport and preventing Henry from entering the country.
2018–2024 Haitian crisis. Tires set on fire by protesters in Hinche, February 2019. Date. 7 July 2018 (2018-07-07) – present (6 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location. Haiti. Caused by. Misuse of loans from Venezuela (Petrocaribe) and social inequality. Rising taxes on gasoline, diesel, and kerosene, and poor living conditions.
The president of Haiti (Haitian Creole: Prezidan peyi Ayiti, French: Président d'Haïti), officially called the president of the Republic of Haiti (French: Président de la République d'Haïti, Haitian Creole: Prezidan Repiblik Ayiti, pronounced [pɣezidã ɣepiblik ajiti]), is the head of state of Haiti. Executive power in Haiti is divided ...
The border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic has been closed for days as violence in Haiti dramatically escalated following a mass prison break in Port-au-Prince. But on Thursday and Friday ...
St. Jean Bosco Church, Port-au-Prince. Jean-Bertrand Aristide (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ bɛʁtʁɑ̃ aʁistid]; born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former Salesian priest and politician who became Haiti 's first democratically elected president. [1][2] As a priest, he taught liberation theology [3][4] and, as a president, he attempted to ...