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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 ...
The United Nations is painting a grim picture of the challenges Haiti is facing right now. Among the warnings included in the report issued Friday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ...
September 19, 2022 at 5:28 PM. The ongoing violent protests that have plunged a crisis-wrecked Haiti into a deeper state of chaos and lawlessness are being “financed by economic actors who stand ...
Iman Crosson (co-editing) Music video. "We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube edition)" on YouTube. " We Are the World 25 for Haiti (YouTube edition) " is a collaborative charity song and music video produced by singer-songwriter Lisa Lavie and posted to the YouTube video sharing website to raise money for victims of the January 12, 2010 Haiti ...
2022 Haitian fuel protests. The socioeconomic and political crisis in Haiti has been marked by rising energy prices due to the 2022 global energy crisis, as well as protests, and civil unrest against the government of Haiti, armed gang violence, an outbreak of cholera, shortages of fuel and clean drinking water, as well as widespread acute hunger.
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 ...
Marie Yolene Gilles, a human-rights activist with Eyes Wide Open/La Fondasyon Je Klere who monitors Haiti’s prison system, said that the fire at the prison appears to have started in the high ...
The politics of Haiti takes place in the framework of a unitary semi-presidential republic, where the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. The politics of Haiti are considered historically unstable due to various coups d'état , regime changes, military juntas and internal conflicts.