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Haiti police block streets, break into airport to protest about officer killings

Haitian police officers on Thursday blocked streets and forced their way into the country's main airport to protest against the recent killings of officers by armed gangs expanding their grip on the Caribbean nation. Protesters in civilian clothes who identified themselves as police officers first attacked Prime Minister Ariel Henry's official residence, according to a Reuters witness, and then flooded the airport as Henry was arriving from a trip to […]

28 January 2023

International

Armed gangs ‘terrorising’ Haiti as cholera spreads: UN official

INTERNATIONAL Armed gangs are “terrorising” residents in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, a United Nations official has warned, as deadly violence and instability continue to complicate the country’s response to a worsening outbreak of cholera. Ulrika Richardson, the UN’s resident and humanitarian coordinator in Haiti, told reporters on Wednesday that 195 murders were recorded in October – about three per day – along with 102 kidnappings. Armed gangs that control approximately 60 […]

17 November 2022

International News

Haiti racing to rebuild schools destroyed in earthquake

Haiti is struggling to send children back to class amid the devastation of the earthquake last month that killed more than 2,200 people and destroyed tens of thousands of buildings, including many schools. It is a logistical and humanitarian challenge in the disaster-prone country - the poorest in the Americas - one that never fully recovered from the huge quake in 2010 that killed more than 200,000 people and caused […]

5 September 2021

International News

Haiti earthquake: The forgotten villages cut off from help

image captionThe drive up to Marceline is marked by huge fissures in the road The prettily named village of Marceline is 30 minutes' drive north of Les Cayes. Before the earthquake hit it had two churches - Catholic and Baptist - a medical centre, a school and a voodoo community centre. A tarmac road runs through the village, and off that tight paths cross banana trees, meandering by cinder block […]

19 August 2021

International News

Haiti earthquake: Death toll climbs as Tropical Depression Grace hits

At least 1,419 people are known to have died in the 7.2-magnitude quake. More than 6,900 were injured, and an unknown number are still missing. Tropical Depression Grace is expected to dump up to 25cm (10 inches) of rainfall over the worst affected area. It is feared the deluge could trigger landslides. Social media footage showed heavy rain pouring over the island's east, with the quake-hit west next in its […]

17 August 2021

International News

Haiti commemorates Jan 2010 earthquake

Haiti commemorates the January 12, 2010 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and 102 United Nations staff. The United Nations (UN) has embarked on a week of commemorative activities starting from last Friday. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says their aim is to honour the memory of those who died. Millions of Haitians lost their homes, family members and so much more in the devastating earthquake. UN staff […]

12 January 2020

International News

UN chief in Haiti gets glimpse of Matthew’s destruction

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited victims of devastating Hurricane Matthew, saying the destruction wrought by the storm was "heartbreaking". During the trip on Saturday, he renewed a pledge to help the nation cope with a deadly scourge of cholera that was introduced by UN peacekeepers after an earthquake in 2010. Ban's brief visit came as victims of the storm continued to express frustration - sometimes violently - at delays in […]

16 October 2016

International News

Anger flares in Haiti as many left without aid

Trucks filled with aid are trundling through remote, hurricane-ravaged towns in Haiti - but the frustration of survivors like Dmitry Pierre is boiling over into deep anger and even violence as they watch them pass by without stopping. Desperate people who have lost their houses and are living in rubble or in crowded shelters blocked streets on Tuesday to force convoys to stop and pay them attention. Some have even […]

12 October 2016

International News

Hurricane Matthew: ‘1.4 million need help in Haiti’

Haiti faces a crisis that requires a "massive response" from the international community, the United Nations has said, with at least 1.4 million people needing emergency aid after Hurricane Matthew. The storm killed almost 1,000 people in the impoverished Caribbean nation, with that toll likely to rise as rescue workers reach previously inaccessible areas. Matthew, the most powerful Atlantic storm since 2007, last week leveled homes, fouled water sources and […]

11 October 2016

Haiti

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