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Slavery tribunal? Africa and Caribbean unite on reparations
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Slavery tribunal? Africa and Caribbean unite on reparations

BRIDGETOWN — Support is building among Africa and Caribbean nations for the creation of an international tribunal on atrocities dating to the transatlantic trade of enslaved people, with the United…
Posted by John McCarthy April 6, 2024
Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry
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Rationed food kept Cubans fed during the Cold War. Today an economic crisis has them hungry

HAVANA (AP) — Like millions of other Cubans, María de los Ángeles Pozo thinks back fondly to when a government ration book fed her family everything from hamburgers, fish and…
Posted by John McCarthy March 28, 2024
Haiti gang violence deaths surge in 2024, UN report says
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Haiti gang violence deaths surge in 2024, UN report says

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Gang violence in Haiti has killed over 1,500 people so far this year while dozens have been lynched by so-called self-defence brigades, the U.N. human rights office said…
Posted by John McCarthy March 28, 2024
Haiti’s transitional council issues its first statement, signaling its creation is nearly complete
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Haiti’s transitional council issues its first statement, signaling its creation is nearly complete

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Members of a transitional presidential council who will be responsible for selecting a new prime minister issued their first official statement on Wednesday, pledging to restore “public and democratic…
Posted by John McCarthy March 28, 2024
Hunger deepens as relentless gang violence targets Haiti’s capital
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Hunger deepens as relentless gang violence targets Haiti’s capital

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Gangs have intensified their rampage in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital, setting fire to a school and looting pharmacies across the road from the country’s largest…
Posted by John McCarthy March 27, 2024
For Haitian diaspora, gang violence back home is personal as hopes dim for eventual return
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For Haitian diaspora, gang violence back home is personal as hopes dim for eventual return

TIJUANA (AP) — When Vivianne Petit Frere fled her native Haiti for Brazil in 2019 and later walked through the Panamanian jungle and on to Mexico, where she opened a…
Posted by John McCarthy March 24, 2024
As gangs rampage through Haiti’s capital, more than 33,000 people have fled in 13 days, report finds
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As gangs rampage through Haiti’s capital, more than 33,000 people have fled in 13 days, report finds

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — More than 33,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in a span of nearly two weeks as gangs continue to pillage homes and attack state institutions, according to…
Posted by John McCarthy March 23, 2024
Dominican Republic is urged to stop deporting people to Haiti as people flee surge in gang violence
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Dominican Republic is urged to stop deporting people to Haiti as people flee surge in gang violence

DAJABON (AP) — Human rights activists are calling on the Dominican Republic’s government for a temporary reprieve in deportations as neighboring Haiti’s crisis spirals and people attempt to flee over the closed…
Posted by John McCarthy March 20, 2024
Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country
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Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A crowd of about 100 people tried to shove through a metal gate in Haiti’s capital as a guard with a baton pushed them back, threatening to hit them.…
Posted by John McCarthy March 19, 2024
Author Mitch Albom evacuated from Haiti amid gang violence and unrest
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Author Mitch Albom evacuated from Haiti amid gang violence and unrest

PORT-AU-PRINCE — American author Mitch Albom was evacuated from Haiti amid ongoing gang violence and unrest. Albom, 65, was visiting his orphanage Have Faith Haiti when he found himself stranded. "The…
Posted by John McCarthy March 13, 2024

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