Over 60 Rights Groups Call on France to Pay Reparations to Haiti

Over 60 rights groups have signed a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron calling for billions of dollars in reparations to Haiti The letter dated Tuesday, July 29, points to the crippling payments Haiti made to France as compensation for...

Haitians in ‘despair’ following abrupt suspension of US humanitarian support

The cancellation of most US funding in January means many services to the most vulnerable people have been cut or put on hold. Multiple political, security and socioeconomic crises have led to 5.7 million people suffering from a lack of food and...

HAITI-HEALTH-Cholera continues to impact Haiti

Why Haiti Is And Will Always Be The Blueprint For Revolution

“We are all descendants of the Haitian Revolution.” These are words from Laurent Dubois’s book, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Dubois makes the point that Haiti transformed the world and played an integral role in...

Cholera threatens displaced families as Haiti’s crises deepen

Cholera is once again haunting Haiti’s most vulnerable, as the disease spreads in displacement sites where families lack access to safe water and sanitation. The outbreak adds pressure to an already overwhelmed public health system, strained by...

World News in Brief: Violence in Somalia, cholera in Haiti, tax support for sustainable development

Clashes intensified in the town of Mahas in the Hiraan region, Hirshabelle state, on 26 July forcing the entire population – over 28,000 people – to flee their homes. Another 38,000 people were displaced in the Gedo region, Jubaland state, between...

Medication Adherence in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Comprehensive Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Factors in the MENA Region

Introduction Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a significant global epidemic, affecting an estimated 537 million adults worldwide in 2019, a number projected to rise to 783 million by 2045.1 In the United States, diabetes is the seventh leading...

Haitian-American security officer among fatal victims in Midtown Manhattan mass shooting

Haitian-American security officer Aland Etienne has been identified as one of the victims killed during a mass shooting at an office building in Midtown Manhattan on Monday evening. - Advertisement - Etienne, 46, a devoted father of two and a...

Dr. Feroze Sidhwa Gives First-Hand Account on Working in Gazan Hospitals

California-based trauma and critical care surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa has worked in hospitals in Gaza twice since Israel’s ongoing assault since October 7, 2023. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” he affirmed, speaking at Redeemer Lutheran Church...

Rasin Okan reclaims Haitian roots music with debut album ‘Jou Ma Lonje’

Overview: Rasin Okan, Brooklyn’s only rasin sèch band, released its first album, Jou Ma Lonje, on July 19. Cultural worker and health activist Véronëque Ignace discusses the group’s work and its deep connection to Haitian cultural identity. More...

Over 60 rights groups call on France's Macron for reparations to Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Over 60 rights groups signed a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron calling for reparations to Haiti over the crippling payments it paid France as compensation for lost "property" - including slaves - after its...

From concrete to collards: Urban garden near Little Haiti is changing lives

Click here for updates on this story PINEWOOD, Florida (WFOR) — What may have looked like just another patch of green in Pinewood, near Little Haiti, turned out to be something far more powerful, a vibrant urban garden and the beating heart of a...

Haiti aims to improve vaccination coverage

This idea will come true by the Expanded Program of Immunization that will direct its efforts to increase this section from 75 to 95 percent for all antigens. According to Le Nouvelliste, this plan will be supported by the departmental health...

Cancer patients in Haiti face death sentence due to distance, gangs, lack of resources

For four years Jean Fritz Dieu fought to stay alive, traveling by motorbike over rugged mountains and through gang-controlled streets to get treatment for an aggressive tumor. When the armed gangs took over the final open road, he used a barge on...

Health in the Hood's urban garden near Little Haiti is changing lives

What may have looked like just another patch of green in Pinewood, near Little Haiti, turned out to be something far more powerful, a vibrant urban garden and the beating heart of a movement called Health in the Hood. Founded by Asha Walker in...

Haiti in Crisis: Can the Catholic Church Help Turn the Tide?

Just 700 miles southeast of Florida, a Catholic country has descended into chaos: Haiti. Even before a cataclysmic earthquake hit the country 15 years ago, the population of 11 million had suffered relentless manmade disasters and the collapse of...

Nearly 2.2K affordable units, health service, park upgrades planned in North Miami development

A long-vacant stretch of land in North Miami will begin transforming next year into one of the city’s largest mixed-use developments, featuring housing, health care, and retail components. Miami Beach-based workforce and affordable housing builder...

“Regresar es prácticamente la muerte”: Inmigrantes haitianos temen los intentos de Trump por enviarlos de regreso a su país

Nicquel Terry Ellis y Eva McKend, CNN Con ocho meses de embarazo, Titi, una inmigrante haitiana de 28 años, teme ser deportada a su país natal. Titi, quien pidió ser identificada solo con un seudónimo por temor a ser objeto de las autoridades...

Coach Barone: An Argentine familiar with Haitian soccer has eyes on men’s national team

Overview: Argentine coach Carlos Barone’s love story with Haitian soccer began in 1983 when he played for Aigle Noir. Now he is coaching Association Sportive Capoise and was hoping to showcase his value at the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club...

U.S. Reissues Travel Advisory for This Caribbean Island—Adding Terrorism Warnings

U.S. Department of State renews Level 4 warning against Haiti. The travel warning was issued due to "kidnapping, crime, terrorist activity, civil unrest, and limited health care." The United States just reissued a travel advisory continuing to...