A growing number of civilians and police officers are demanding the dismissal and arrest of Haiti's police chief as heavily armed gangs launched a new attack in the capital of Port-au-Prince, seizing ...
Gangs stormed a police station on the outskirts of Haiti's capital overnight into Saturday, a police union told AFP, as a transitional ruling council struggled to restore order in the violence-wracked ...
Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted ...
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti — They call it Okap, home to Haiti’s kings, emancipated slaves and revolutionaries. Sitting on the ...
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, ...
It’s been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on its ...
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“Vodou is the system that Haitians have developed to deal with the suffering of this life, a system whose object is to ...
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.
Ariel Henry resigned as prime minister of Haiti, facilitating the formation of a new government in a country plagued by ...
Some women in Haiti have turned to sex work in order to provide for their families as basic goods become increasingly scarce.