Haiti, transitional council
The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their ...
In August 1791, some 200 slaves gathered at night in Bois-Caiman in northern Haiti for a Vodou ceremony organized by Dutty Boukman, a renowned enslaved leader and Vodou priest. They sacrificed a pig, ...
Life-saving medication and equipment is dwindling or altogether absent at hospitals and clinics across Haiti's capital. This is the result of brutal gangs tightening their grip on Port-au-Prince ...
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The last opportunity for U.S. nationals to flee violence-wracked Haiti on a government-chartered evacuation flight arrived Friday, with no sign of the chaos easing in the tiny Caribbean nation.
A Haitian warlord has been using rap videos to expand his control over the crisis hit country as gang violence continues to choke the capital. Johnson Andre, also known as Izo, had been using ...
Haiti has formally established a transitional council to fill a leadership vacuum by choosing a new prime minister, and to restore order in the Caribbean country ravaged by gang violence.
A transitional council tasked with choosing Haiti’s next prime minister and Cabinet was established Friday in a move supporters hope will help quell turmoil in the troubled Caribbean country ...
Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted ...
Some women in Haiti have turned to sex work in order to provide for their families as basic goods become increasingly scarce.