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18th October 2020

Photo Story: Anti-Government protests in Port-au-Prince

A photo taken during an anti-Government protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The opposition organized a large demonstration against President Jovenel Moise, coinciding with the anniversary of the death of the hero…

Haiti, Photo StoryHaiti

24th February 2020

Tension in Haiti as police and army exchange fire

One soldier was killed in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Sunday, local media reported, when police officers shot up an army headquarters in a violent escalation of protests demanding…

Haiti, NewsHaiti

15th February 2020

Orphanage fire kills 15 children in Haiti

A fire at an orphanage in Haiti has killed 15 children, according to health care workers. Staff at the Orphanage of the Church of Bible Understanding say the home -…

Haiti, NewsHaiti

16th October 2019

UN ends peacekeeping mission in Haiti

Amid ever increasing protests, the last U.N. peacekeepers exit Haiti after 15 years. Making good on a 2017 vote, on Tuesday the UN Security Council ended its 15-year mission to…

Haiti, News, United NationsHaiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Jovenel Moise, United Nations

28th September 2019

Photo Story: Protests in Haiti

People ride past a burning makeshift barricade during a protest calling for the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Shortages of fuel and food, inflation, corruption and…

Haiti, News, Photo StoryHaiti, port au prince, President Jovenel Moise

19th September 2019

Photo Story: Haitian capital paralyzed by protests

A woman looks at a barricade on fire during protests on a street of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Port-au-Prince and several provincial capitals of Haiti this week have seen protests against fuel…

Haiti, News, Photo StoryHaiti, Jean Marc Herve Abelard

11th June 2019

Photo Story : Haiti protests

Demonstrators roam the streets in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 10 June 2019. The capital of Haiti was almost paralyzed after a strike was called by the opposition to demand the resignation of…

News, Photo StoryHaiti

7th October 2018

5.9 earthquake strikes Haiti

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near the northernmost tip of Haiti late on Saturday, injuring a number of people and causing some damage to buildings including an auditorium that collapsed,…

NewsEarthquake, Haiti

16th July 2018

Monday Morning Briefing

Good morning, France wins the World Cup while Trump arrives in Helsinki for his summit with Putin. Before leaving the UK he stresses that the EU is a foe of…

Morning BriefingBREXIT, Croatia, Fifa, France, Golan Heights, Haiti, Hamas, Israel, Italy, Malta, Migration, Russia, Syria, UK, USA, World Cup

15th July 2018

Haiti’s Prime Minister resigns

AFP: Embattled Haiti Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on Saturday following deadly violence and looting sparked by a now-abandoned plan to raise fuel prices, triggering a fraught process to form…

NewsHaiti, Lanfontant