A fire swept through an unlicensed orphanage outside Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, killing 15 children, a local judge told AFP on Friday.
The building — which had not been authorized to operate as an orphanage since 2013 — housed about 66 children, said Raymonde Jean Antoine. …
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Prime Minister Dr. Jack Guy Lafontant speaks at the national palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 2017.
He resigned following riots over fuel prices. Dieu Nalio Chery/AP hide caption toggle caption Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Prime Minister Dr. Jack Guy Lafontant speaks at the national palace in...
Embattled Haiti Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned on Saturday following deadly violence and looting sparked by a now-abandoned plan to raise fuel prices.
“I submitted my resignation to the president of the republic,” who has “accepted my resignation,” Lafontant said in the lower house...
Haiti’s Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant on Saturday announced the suspension “until further notice” of an unpopular fuel price hike that triggered violent protests in the....
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Oxfam, one of Britain’s largest charities, acknowledged on Friday that staff members committed “sexual misconduct” in Haiti in 2011, after a news report revealed that …
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