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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed on Monday to extend for another year its authorization of a Kenyan-led international security force helping fight armed gangs in Haiti. The ...
Haiti’s armed gangs are once more on the attack, this time turning their focus to piracy and taking the violence to the country’s high seas and main seaport. On Thursday, a crane operator in ...
September 25, 2024 at 2:59 PM. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille said on Wednesday the Caribbean nation was a long way from winning its war against armed gangs that control ...
Haiti. Haiti, [b] officially the Republic of Haiti, [c][d] is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. [17][18] Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean, and with an ...
Haiti's government collapsed after the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, after which the current prime minister, Ariel Henry, assumed power without an election. Henry’s official term ended in early 2022, and he has since postponed elections, governing without a constitutional mandate or any remaining elected officials; on ...