A migrant encampment under the international bridge in Del Rio, Texas, recently grew to more than 14,000 people, prompting the Biden administration to order a surge in border personnel and the ...

Port-au-Prince, Haiti CNN —. A tropical storm system has dumped heavy rain on the area of Haiti where a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on Saturday killed at least 1,419 people. Tropical Depression ...

SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is extending the designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 18 months, beginning on February 4, 2023, and ending on August 3, 2024. This extension allows existing TPS …

Haiti is bordered to the east by the Dominican Republic, which covers the rest of Hispaniola, to the south and west by the Caribbean, and to the north by the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba lies some 50 miles (80 km) west …

Last modified on Tue 10 Jan 2023 14.29 EST. The last 10 remaining senators in Haiti 's parliament have officially left office, leaving the country without a single democratically elected ...

Haiti, then known as Saint-Domingue, had been the crown jewel of the French empire. It was the most lucrative colony in the whole world. French planters forced African slaves to produce sugar ...

Haiti's elected mayors were all reappointed or replaced in 2020. And last week, its 10 remaining senators departed office after their terms ended, leaving behind a nation's worth of elected ...

Security Assistance. Strengthening Haiti's law enforcement capacity is a key U.S. priority. We have provided $312 million in assistance between 2010-2020 alone to strengthen law enforcement and ...

Disaster divided: Two countries, one island, life-and-death differences. By Madison Park, CNN. 4 minute read. Published 7:22 AM EDT, Tue October 11, 2016. Link Copied! A woman cleans her flooded ...

Haiti's troubles go back more than a century. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Brooklyn College professor Jean-Eddy Saint Paul about the country's history. To better understand the historical ...

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday renewed for one year its sanctions regime on Haiti, which currently includes just one individual, as Haiti and China called for faster action.

The Explanation. Haiti's gang crisis. How competing gangs are carving up Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. BBC World Service. Available for over a year. 18 mins.

In the years since Haiti last held a democratic election, the challenges facing the country have spiraled: gang violence, inflation, a …

Geographical and historical treatment of Haiti, including maps and statistics as well as a survey of its people, economy, and government. Haiti was the second country in the Americas, after the United States, to …

A woman walks past a collapsed building in Jeremie, Haiti, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, four days after the city was struck by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake. Matias Delacroix/AP. As the death toll ...

02:36 - Source: CNN. CNN —. The kidnapping of an American nurse in Haiti last week along with her young child has cast stark light on the Caribbean nation's …

EXPLAINER: Haiti's troubled history of foreign interventions. A woman cries near the body of another woman shot dead by the police during a protest demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph). FILE - Suspects in the assassination …

1806 - Dessalines assassinated and Haiti divided into a black-controlled north and a mulatto-ruled south. 1818-43 - Pierre Boyer unifies Haiti, but excludes blacks from power. 1915 - US invades ...

It happened again. Over the weekend, Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that crumbled homes and buildings and killed more than 1,200 people. Rescuers are still working to find survivors ...

Haiti is the poorest country in the Caribbean and among the poorest countries in the world, with some 60 percent of the population living in poverty. The government relies on foreign aid from countries like the …

The rapidly deteriorating security situation in Haiti demands that the country remains at the centre of international attention and action, newly appointed UN Special …

In October alone, 14,801 people were sent to Haiti from the Dominican Republic, according to records by Haitian aid organization Groupe d'Appui des Rapatriés et Réfugiés – an average of 477 ...

Five weeks after Moïse's assassination, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits western Haiti, approximately 55 miles north of Les Cayes. It is the largest natural disaster …

Maritime migration from Haiti more than tripled in FY 2022, with a total of 4,025 Haitian nationals interdicted at sea compared to 1,205 in FY 2021 and 398 in FY 2020. In the first four months of FY 2023, Haitian interdictions are almost 50 percent of the Haitian FY 2022 total, comprising a Start Printed Page 26328 quarter of all FY 2023 ...

Haiti has an estimated population of just over 11 million inhabitants, with younger generations accounting for one-third of the overall population. Although it is a rather small country, Haiti is ...

Introduction. On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Republic of Haiti. The human cost was enormous—an estimated 316,000 people were killed, and a further 300,000 were injured. The scope of the disaster was matched by the scope of the response, which remains the largest multinational humanitarian response to …

In 2010, Haiti was devastated by an earthquake whose main shock rattled the ground for nearly 30 seconds. At least 220,000 people are estimated to have died, and some 1.5 million people were ...

The Haitian government declared a state of emergency after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the country Saturday, leaving at least 1,297 people dead and more than 5,700 injured, according to the ...

There are few signs it's about to happen. An estimated 200 gangs now hold sway in Haiti, around 100 in Port-au-Prince alone, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized ...

Carol Guzy/ The Washington Post. In 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than 200,000 and sending buildings in Port-au-Prince, the capital, toppling to the ground.

"Podemos decir que 10 años después Haití no se ha recuperado del terremoto", asegura a BBC Mundo Robert Fatton, profesor de la Universidad de Virginia, en EE.UU., y autor de Haiti's Predatory ...

Kenya is set to send 100 police officers to Haiti to assist in peace and security building. Haiti has been experiencing unrest for over two years now since the assassination of its President ...

Haiti Prime Minister Ariel Henry and 18 top-ranking officials have requested on the second week of Oct. 2022, the immediate deployment of foreign armed troops as …

Haitians deported from the U.S. recover their belongings scattered on the tarmac of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport on Tuesday in Port-au-Prince, …

Haiti has been spiraling deeper into turmoil since Moïse was murdered at his Port-au-Prince residence. Since then, rifle-toting gangs have commandeered up to 90% of Haiti's capital and …

Armed police safeguard the funeral of three fellow officers killed by gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 31, 2023. Ellen Ioanes covers breaking and general assignment news as the weekend ...

At a magnitude of 7.2, Saturday's quake released about twice as much energy as the one in 2010, which was a magnitude-7.0 quake. That quake killed some 300,000 people. Jerry Chandler, head of ...

The Security Council today authorized the renewal for one year of the sanctions regime on Haiti, continuing a targeted arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze established in October 2022 to address the widespread violence, criminal activity and human rights abuses plaguing the country.