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30,000 Haitian kids live in private orphanages. Officials want to shutter them and reunite families.

Haiti’s government is stepping up efforts to remove hundreds of children from orphanages across the country and reunite them with their parents or relatives

The Independent UK

US Vice President Harris announces new assistance for Caribbean

The vice president met with regional leaders in the Bahamas to discuss gun crimes, climate change and Haiti’s crisis.

Al Jazeera

US vice president announces more than $100M to help Caribbean during official visit to Bahamas

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has announced that the U.S. is investing more than $100 million in the Caribbean region to crack down on weapons trafficking, help alleviate Haiti’s humanitarian crisis and support climate change initiatives

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England's Lionesses to face Canada in World Cup warm-up friendly

Sarina Wiegman's Lionesses will face Canada in a behind closed doors friendly in Australia eight days before they begin their Women's World Cup campaign against Haiti

Daily Mirror

Haitians are dying of thirst and starvation in severely overcrowded jails

Haiti’s inmates are thirsty and starving in severely overcrowded jails, many forced to sleep standing up

The Independent UK

Earthquake kills several people in Haiti following deadly floods

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 struck southern Haiti early Tuesday, killing at least four people and injuring 36 others, authorities said.

France 24

4.9 magnitude quake kills three in southern Haiti

Authorities in Haiti say that three people have been killed when a 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck the south of the country

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4.9 magnitude quake strikes southern Haiti; 3 dead, several injured

Authorities in Haiti say that three people have been killed when a 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck the south of the country

The Independent UK

Haiti chaos as death toll from the heavy floods rises to 42 and earthquake hits

Haiti was already a vulnerable country and now the flooding has now pushed many to breaking point with damaged homes and displaced residents

Daily Mirror

Fatal quake hits Haiti as it reels from floods

A moderate earthquake shook western Haiti early Tuesday morning, killing at least three and injuring others according to media reports, as the island nation battles to recover from flooding that killed 42 over the weekend.

Reuters

At least 42 dead, thousands homeless after floods in Haiti

Flooding from torrential rains in Haiti has left at least 42 people dead over the past couple days and dozens more missing and injured, officials said on Monday.

Reuters

Death toll rises to 42 as Haiti struggles to recover from floods

Authorities say the number of people killed by heavy floods that hit Haiti over the weekend has risen to 42 and that another 11 are missing

The Independent UK

Casabe, Cuba's little-known traditional bread, seeks world recognition

Cuba is leading a delegation of Caribbean nations, including Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Honduras and Haiti, to formally request UNESCO to add casabe, a little-known ancestral flatbread made of yuca, cassava, to the organization's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage

The Independent UK

15 dead, 8 missing after heavy rains unleash floods in Haiti

Authorities in Haiti say at least 15 people have died and another eight are missing after heavy rains unleased widespread flooding and several landslides across Haiti over the weekend

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Vigilantes in Haiti strike back at gangsters with brutal street justice

Old cars, used tires and barbed wire block off the biggest neighborhood in the capital of Haiti

Reuters

US blocks ex-Haitian PM Lamothe from entering country, citing corruption

The United States on Friday blocked former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe from entering the United States over what Secretary of State Antony Blinken said was his "involvement in significant corruption."

Al Jazeera

US bars former Haitian prime minister from entering the country

The sanction is the latest in a string of actions the US has taken to confront corruption in the Caribbean country.

The New Daily

Haitian man sentenced over pres assassination

A US federal judge in Miami has sentenced a Haitian-Chilean businessman to life in prison for his role in helping Colombian mercenaries get weapons to

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Man behind guns in Haitian president's assassination sentenced to life in prison

A dual Haitian-Chilean citizen was sentenced to life in prison on Friday after pleading guilty in a U.S. court in March to three charges involving his role in the 2021 assassination of then-Haitian President Jovenel Moise, prosecutors said.

Al Jazeera

US court sentences Haitian businessman to life in Moise’s killing

Rodolphe Jaar is one of 11 people arrested and charged in US for alleged involvement in Haitian president’s killing.

The Guardian - US

Mastermind of assassination of Haiti president sentenced to life by US court

Rodolphe Jaar, a Haitian-Chilean businessman, conspired with Colombian mercenaries, to kill Jovenel Moïse in 2021

Reuters

Haiti rights group decries 'inhumane' conditions in police jails

Detainees in overcrowded cells in Haitian police stations are living in "inhumane, degrading conditions", a human rights group RNDDH said Thursday, with police relying on makeshift prisons amid insecurity and a crippled judicial system.

Bangkok Post

Backsliding on maternal mortality

In 2020, an estimated 287,000 women died in pregnancy, childbirth, or soon after delivering, according to the latest data from the United Nations Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group, which includes the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). This figure is roughly equivalent to the death toll of the 2004 Indian Ocean…

The Independent UK

UN agencies warn of starvation risk in Sudan, Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali, call for urgent aid

Two U.N. agencies are warning of rising food emergencies including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war and in Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali due to restricted movements of people and goods

Reuters

Haiti's deadly vigilante movement sees decline in gang violence - report

Violence by armed gangs has fallen "drastically" since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement that has seen at least 160 suspected criminals killed in the last month, a report by local human rights research group CARDH said on Sunday.

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