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(Reuters) -Haiti's government on Wednesday created a provisional electoral council, marking the most concrete step toward reviving the electoral process in years after political turmoil and later ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -More than 15 people in western Haiti were killed after a gas tank truck exploded on Saturday, Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille said in a post on social media. A similar ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
More than 2,500 people were killed or injured in gang violence in Haiti from January through March, up 53% from the last three months of 2023, the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH ...
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.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s government said Thursday that it was extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and curb violent gang attacks that have paralyzed the ...