Tag: #PortauPrince
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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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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,…