Black Alliance for Peace (BAP – USA), people-centered human rights project against war, repression and imperialism, condemns the arrogance and illegality of United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti Helen La Lime’s July 8 statement that Haitian Prime Minister Claude Joseph will be the new president, just one day after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. […]
Brazil can expect to see more migrants coming from Haiti, following the social and political turmoil caused by President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination on July 7, says Father Paolo Parise, a São Paulo-based expert on migration. Since 2010, when an earthquake devastated Haiti and killed more than 300,000 people, at least 130,000 migrants have left the […]
They say Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 63-year-old Haitian national, flew into the country on a private jet in early June with “political motives”. Mr Moïse, 53, was killed at his residence on 7 July, by 28 foreign mercenaries, the police said earlier. His wife was injured in the attack, and then flown to the US […]
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has been assassinated in an attack on his home, according to a statement from the country’s interim prime minister, who called the killing a “hateful, inhumane and barbaric act”. A group of unidentified individuals attacked Moïse’s private residence overnight on Wednesday and shot him dead, interim Premier Claude Joseph said. First […]
Haiti President Jovenel Moïse has tapped Ariel Henry, a former minister of interior and respected neurosurgeon who once charted the country’s public health response to the deadly cholera epidemic, as his latest prime minister. But the de facto way in which Henry, 71, got the job — there has been no parliament since January 2020, […]
The number of children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Haiti could more than double this year, warned Jean Gough, UNICEF’s Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, after a recent report, after a recent 7-day visit to Haiti. Acute malnutrition in children under 5 has increased by 61% in the past […]
French Open organizers said they took a “pragmatic” approach in their dealings with four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka earlier in the tournament, insisting they tried to engage with her several times before she decided to withdraw from the clay-court Grand Slam. Osaka withdrew from Roland Garros after she was fined $15,000 for skipping the […]
Yamiche Alcindor whose parents came to the US from Haiti has been named host of one of America’s long running top rated political forums to make this even better the show was once hosted by Alcindor’s mentor Barbadian born Gwen Ifill who died five years ago of cancer and who in 1999 became the first […]
WASHINGTON — Several United States lawmakers have sent a letter to the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken urging that Washington re-assess its policies towards the French-speaking Caribbean Community (Caricom) country of Haiti. Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Gregory W Meeks, and Hakeem Jeffries, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, were among 68 […]
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haitians used flaming tires, trucks and debris to barricade some of Port-au-Prince’s main roads on Monday to protest the insecurity wracking the country in the wake of the deaths of police officers in a botched raid on a gang stronghold. Kidnappings and murders in the poorest country in the Americas have surged over […]
