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When Venezuela stopped shipping oil to Haiti in March 2018, this led to fuel shortages. With the removal of government subsidies in July, kerosene prices went up over 50 percent, with similarly steep hikes on other fossil fuels. [31] These rises in taxes on gasoline, diesel, and kerosene that went into effect on 7 July 2018 brought Haitians ...
First, armed groups attacked Haiti’s largest prison and orchestrated a jailbreak of nearly 4,000 inmates, many of them murderers, kidnappers and gang leaders. Now the country’s National ...
September 5, 2024 at 12:45 AM. Nearly 580,000 people have been internally displaced by conflict in Haiti, the UN says [Getty Images] The Haitian authorities have expanded a state of emergency to ...
March 20, 2024 at 8:25 PM. By Ralph Tedy Erol and Sarah Morland. (Reuters) -Suspected gang members were killed during an attack on the Petion-Ville neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Haiti ...
Since 2020, Haiti 's capital Port-au-Prince has been the site of an ongoing gang war between two major groups and their allies: the Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies (FRG9 or G9) and the G-Pep. [2][3][24] The Government of Haiti and Haitian security forces have struggled to maintain their control of Port-au-Prince amid this ...
Aerial view of Port-au-Prince, 2010. Protests erupted in Haiti on 14 September 2022 in response to rising energy prices and the rising cost of living. [ 2 ] Following an announcement by the acting prime minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, on 11 September that the government would be ending fuel subsidies and that the price of petroleum products ...
September 27, 2024 at 4:36 AM. By Sarah Morland. (Reuters) - Haiti has seen nearly 13 people killed on average each day this year, according to data from a United Nations report on Friday, which ...
It can take Haiti from violent chaos to progress and peace | Guest Opinion. Peter Hakim, Georges Fauriol and Keith Mines. January 26, 2023 at 6:51 PM. The rudiments of a loose international plan ...