By Rafael Bernal, The Hill — A key international aid organization is slashing its food assistance program in Haiti, leaving 100,000 people without food aid they had previously counted on….
World Food Programme calls for funds to maintain ‘stabilizing’ humanitarian assistance. By World Food Programme — “Haiti’s hunger crisis is unseen, unheard, and unaddressed,” World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain, who…
Regional leaders express hope for consensus as troubled nation’s stakeholders begin security talks in Kingston By Ainsworth Morris, Jamaica Gleaner — As regional leaders and former leaders came together in…
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. — Walking into the Baltimore, Maryland Convention Center on April 22nd, I was uncertain as to what expect. The much publicized and fifth “State of the…
By Julianne Malveaux — My maternal grandfather was Haitian. I didn’t know him well – he died when I was about six. I don’t remember whether he smoked a pipe…
As the international community contemplates another armed intervention, a reckoning with history is long overdue. By Marlene L. Daut, The New Yorker — “What happened to the Creole pigs is…
Kidnappings and sexual violence against women and girls is also surging. By OCHA — With the humanitarian situation in Haiti deteriorating by the day – in the face of spiralling…
By Loop News — Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders have reiterated their commitment to finding a lasting solution to issues affecting Haiti. The leaders with responsibility for Haiti met yesterday, under…
Prime Minister Andrew Holness left Jamaica Monday morning to lead a special CARICOM mission to Haiti. The mission is comprised of representatives from the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago and the…
By Megan Janetsky and Fernanda Pesce, AP — Nadia hushes the crying 3-month-old baby swaddled in her arms, gently planting kisses on her forehead. She was 19, not ready to…
In the years since Haiti last held a democratic election, the challenges facing the country have spiraled: gang violence, inflation, a cholera outbreak. “It’s a collapse,” one outgoing senator said….
Anti-blackness is on the rise in Ayiti. But Haitians and Dominicans are resisting, in ways big and small. By Saudi Garcia, Africa Is a Country — The word crisis is…