Armed gangs have stormed the main prison in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, releasing many inmates. The vast majority of about 4,000 men held there have now escaped, a local journalist told BBC News. Among those detained were gang members charged in connection with the 2021 killing of President Jovenel Moïse. Violence in Haiti, the poorest country […]
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How UN peacekeepers in Haiti ‘fathered hundreds of babies with girls as young as 11 and abandoned them’
“They put a few coins in your hands to drop a baby in you,” one woman was quoted in a study that looked at the experiences of women and girls living around United Nations bases in Haiti. In the newly released study published in The Conversation, researchers found that United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti fathered and […]
Dutty Boukman: the self educated slave who launched the Haitian revolution against French rule
Dutty Boukman was the rebel leader who launched the Haitian revolution against french rule, ultimately defeating napoleon’s armies. Bookman Dutty inspired and launched the single most influential event that brought this tradition into full swing, the Haitian Revolution in 1791. This momentous event inspired and awoke enslaved Africans throughout the Americas. When Bookman Dutty inspired […]