Haiti
7 Feb 2017
Jovenel Moise was sworn in Tuesday as Haiti's 58th president, ending a protracted electoral crisis that had created a vacuum of power in the impoverished, disaster-prone Caribbean nation.
7 Feb 2017
President-elect Jovenel Moise will be inaugurated Tuesday after having survived Haiti's year-and-a-half electoral crisis, assuming power as political tensions continue to simmer.
5 Jan 2017
Jovenel Moise, a Haitian banana exporter who has never held political office, has survived the country's long-running electoral nightmare to become its next president.
4 Jan 2017
Jovenel Moise won Haiti's presidential elections with 55.6 percent of the first round vote held on November 20, according to official results released Tuesday.
2 Dec 2016
Jovenel Moise, the provisional winner of Haiti's presidential election with 55 percent of the vote in the first round, has claimed victory, calling on demonstrators to stand down and restore order in the capital.
21 Nov 2016
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved SDR 30.7125 million (about US$42.1 million) in financial assistance for the Republic of Haiti ...
20 Nov 2016
Haitians went to the polls Sunday to elect a president and members of the legislature in hopes of restoring constitutional order in the impoverished Caribbean country after more than a year of political crisis.
26 Oct 2016
The United Nations' refusal to admit full responsibility for the years-long cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 9,000 lives in Haiti is a debacle that it has a duty to correct, a UN expert said Tuesday.
24 Oct 2016
Rickety structures made of sheet metal and scrap wood are clustered along the road to the Haitian city of Jeremie, which still hasn't seen any aid nearly three weeks after Hurricane Matthew.
19 Oct 2016
Haiti recorded nearly 800 cases of cholera the week after it was ravaged by Hurricane Matthew, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday, as health officials grapple to contain the disease.
14 Oct 2016
Haiti is due to hold long-delayed presidential and legislative elections on November 20, followed by a second round on January 29, its Provisional Electoral Council said Friday.
12 Oct 2016
At least 473 people are now known to have died as Hurricane Matthew leveled swaths of southern Haiti last week, officials said Tuesday, as hard-hit communities struggled to rebuild homes and access food and clean water.
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