Tag: #Haiti
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39 missing after boat capsizes off Florida’s Atlantic coast
U.S. Coast Guard rescue workers are searching for 39 people in Florida’s Atlantic Ocean waters who have been reported missing for days after a human trafficking boat capsized
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Two missionaries released in Haiti after group kidnapping
Haiti: According to a statement by the US-based Christian Aid Ministries, Two missionaries who were kidnapped over a month ago have been set free. The organization reported that they had learned that two of the hostages in Haiti were released and that they offer praise to God for this. Unfortunately, they can only provide limited…
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Earthquake of 7.2 Magnitude Intensity Kills 304 in Haiti
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake has shaken the Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing at least 304 people and destroying hundreds of buildings, including homes, hotels, and schools. According to the British news agency Reuters, the Haitian Civil Protection Services has said that according to the initial data, 304 people have been killed and more than 1800…
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Women in Haiti take to streets, protesting gang violence and political instability
Huge numbers of women protested in Haiti’s capital
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PortauPrince: Judge proposed by opposition to serve as acting president
PortauPrince, Feb 14 (AFP/APP): A judge proposed by the opposition to serve as acting president in Haiti’s latest political crisis ended days of silence Saturday by calling on people to fight against what he called a dictatorship. The comments by the judge, Joseph Mecene Jean-Louis, were seen as a direct challenge to unpopular President Jovenel Moise, who is…
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With schools shuttered, Haiti children also endure crisis
PortauPrince, Nov 23 (AFP/APP): In the middle of the deadly political unrest that has rocked Haiti for more than two months, another crisis is unfolding — most schools are closed, leaving Haitian children with nothing to do and their parents flailing to cope. In some homes, parents are trying to teach their own kids, while…
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At least 42 killed in Haiti protest violence: UN
PortauPrince, Nov 2 (AFP/APP): At least 42 people have been killed and dozens injured during anti-government protests in Haiti since mid-September, the UN’s human rights body said Friday, adding it was “deeply concerned” by the crisis. The poorest country in the Americas has been roiled for two months by protests, which were triggered by fuel…
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Hundreds of police, supporters march in Haiti
PortauPrince, Oct 28 (AFP/APP): Several hundred police and their supporters demonstrated Sunday in Haiti’s capital for better salaries for law enforcement, as anti-government marchers also took to the streets. Separately, a man was beaten to death and then burned by some demonstrators who claimed that he opened fire on a crowd of marchers demanding that…
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Collateral damage from Haiti political crisis: ruined businesses
PortauPrince, Oct 5 (AFP/APP):Tens of thousands of dollars of work reduced to ash: a devastating fire at a handicrafts company in Port-au-Prince illustrates the struggles faced by Haiti’s private sector as the country’s political crisis has spiralled into social unrest. Caribbean Craft produces home decor items, many of them in papier mache: brightly colored animals,…
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Haiti gripped by violent protests, rage against president
PortauPrince, Sept 28 (AFP/APP):Angry protests rumbled through Haiti and its capital of Port-au-Prince Friday as thousands of people took to the streets against President Jovenel Moise, drawing tear gas from police as demonstrators looted and threw stones. Protesters took over a police station in the impoverished Cite Soleil neighborhood, making off with sheet metal roofing,…