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  1. On 7 July 2021, Jovenel Moïse was assassinated, allegedly by a group of 28 foreign mercenaries; three of the suspected assassins were killed and 20 arrested, while a manhunt for the other gunmen, as well as for the masterminds of the attack, remains ongoing as of July 2021.

  2. Mar 13, 2024 · A long-simmering crisis in Haiti has come to a head as its leader remains stranded in Puerto Rico while its people starve and live in fear of rampant violence.

  3. Apr 10, 2024 · News. Timeline: Haiti’s history and current crisis, explained. Going back through centuries of oppression, debt, and political instability to understand this current moment in Haiti’s history. Apr 10, 2024. Haiti beyond the headlines. Get the news that matters from Haiti — and every other country where Concern works — with our monthly newsletter.

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    • Haiti has the highest hunger rates in the Western Hemisphere — and it’s getting worse. In an earlier version of this article written in 2019, we noted that 35% of Haiti’s population, some 3.7 million people, were going hungry.
    • Intergenerational poverty isn’t just family-to-family here. After nearly 13 years of conflict, Haiti gained its independence from France in 1804. Prior to that, the country formerly known as Saint-Domingue spent three centuries as a French slave colony where the average life expectancy of its enslaved peoples was just 21 years.
    • Many Haitians are still recovering from the 2010 earthquake. On January 12, 2010, the area around Port-au-Prince was at the epicenter of a magnitude-7 earthquake; one of the world’s largest natural disasters on record.
    • COVID hasn’t been the country’s biggest public health crisis. Cases of COVID-19 have been comparatively low in Haiti: As of August 15, 2021, the country had registered 20,507 cases and 576 deaths (over 14,000 vaccines had been at least partially administered by this time as well).
  5. Mar 5, 2024 · MEXICO CITY — Haiti is entering its second day of a state of emergency, after gangs attacked the capital city's most important prisons over the weekend, releasing thousands of inmates. The...

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  6. Feb 18, 2022 · Despite some signs of progress in ending the political, economic and humanitarian crisis that has worsened across Haiti since the assassination of its president last year, the situation there...

  7. English. Français. Kreyòl ayisyen. Español. In 2022, Haiti remained in a long-standing political, security and humanitarian crisis that has left all government branches inoperative, compounding...

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