Tag: Haiti

PORT AU PRINCE: Oxfam faced fresh allegations of sexual misconduct by staff in Haiti, with a report on Saturday claiming the charity kept a...

Port-Au-Prince: Oxfam has publicly released its internal investigation into the 2011 Haiti prostitution scandal. The 10-page report highlights how the allegations initially surfaced, how...

LONDON: British aid organisation Oxfam faced fresh pressure on Tuesday after a former senior member of staff said her concerns about “a culture of...

Hurricane-ravaged Haiti, still recovering from a devastating 2010 earthquake, has suffered the highest number of disaster deaths of any country in the past two...

The number of people killed by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti rose to at least 478 people on Friday, as information trickled in from remote...

PORT-AU-PRINCE A truck filled with food and street vendors overturned on Saturday in Haiti, killing 23 people and wounding two dozen others. "The passengers were crammed...

Thousands of young Haitians demonstrated in several cities demanding that President Michel Martelly step down. In the capital of Port-au-Prince, demonstrators from multiple neighborhoods converged...

Tropical Storm Isaac barreled toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti Thursday with forecasters predicting it could soon turn into a hurricane that hits Hispaniola...

Haiti's infamous Cite Soleil, one of the world's most violent and run-down slums, could boast a 15,000-seater stadium and sports complex if one philanthropist's...

Three Pakistani policemen in the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti have been found guilty of sexual abuse and have been jailed, the UN said...

Two UN peacekeepers from Pakistan have been sentenced to a year in prison for raping a 14-year-old Haitian boy after being convicted in a...

The Cuban military searched for survivors Sunday after at least 38 Haitian migrants died as a boat in which they fled their country started...

President Michel Martelly has bestowed a distinguished title upon one of Haiti’s most famous sons, Wyclef Jean, for his work as a roving ambassador...

Former US president Bill Clinton said Thursday that his foundation would provide more than $1 million to help thousands of Haitian students with their...

PORT-AU-PRINCE - Michel Martelly, a carnival singer with a colorful past who seized the mantle of change, is Haiti's new president after storming to a landslide victory, preliminary results showed.
The 50-year-old faces the huge challenge of rebuilding the Caribbean nation, which was the poorest country in the Americas even before a January 2010 earthquake flattened the capital Port-au-Prince and killed more than 225,000 people.
Martelly, with 67.57 percent of the vote,

PORT-AU-PRINCE - Colombian pop star Shakira pledged $400,000 on Thursday to help rebuild a school for girls in Haiti that was severely damaged during the country's devastating earthquake last year.
The Grammy award winner and songwriter announced the contribution during a visit to the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, where she danced and sang with students of the Elie Dubois public school.

PORT-AU-PRINCE - Some danced in memory of quake victims and others dressed as "Mrs Cholera" as Haitians marked the return of carnival hoping to exorcise some of the tragedies that have plagued the nation.
Last year's celebrations were canceled after the massive January 12 earthquake that killed more than 220,000 people, left 1.2 million homeless and ravaged the Port-au-Prince capital region.
Since then a killer cholera epidemic has swept the country, and Haiti was plunged