America Haiti FOKAL has opened applications for Haiti's Emerging Photography Fund, which will select two winners for a scholarship in January 2022, supporting them to produce photographic projects with journalistic, documentary or artistic lenses
America Haiti The Cuban Brigade has celebrated 23 years of assistance in the country since a group of doctors and nurses from Cuba arrived as reinforcements after the passage of Hurricane Georges, a category 4 hurricane, in 1998
America Haiti The UN has opened a service to help displaced residents and those who are physically disabled find safer accommodation; some 5.200 women and girls and 550 people living with disabilities are among those eligible for support
America Haiti The country has opened a consulate in the southern Mexican city of Tapachula in a bid to help manage migration amid a sharp increase in Haitians attempting to cross the US-Mexico border this year
America Haiti Three Haitian journalists are among the six winners of the Young Journalist of Haiti 2021 Award, which is organized by the International Organization of La Francophonie to encourage and promote French-speaking Haitian journalists between 18 and 35
America Haiti More than 100 women and children were abducted in the first eight months of 2021 and more than 15.000 people left their homes due to violence, according to a UNICEF appeal
America Haiti Motorcyclists took to the streets in the municipalities of Tabarre and Delmas, blocking roads with barricades to protest against the continuing rise in fuel prices
America Haiti PwC firms operating in the Caribbean have collectively donated $50.000 in cash to the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency for relief and recovery efforts following last month's magnitude 7,2 earthquake
America Haiti Special Representative for Haiti to the UN Security Council lamented the increase in gang warfare that has led to the displacement of some 19.000 people around Port-au-Prince in recent months
America Haiti Schools have reopened for students in seven Haitian departments, while in the southern areas devastated by the August earthquake the reopening is delayed until 4 October
America Haiti The insecurity that has been affecting the country for months is aggravating the deep socio-economic crisis; fighting between gangs is preventing access to the oil terminals in the capital, causing fuel shortages throughout the already battered state
America Haiti Haitian novelist Emmelie Prophète enters the final of the 2021 Ivory Prize for Literature
America Haiti The country is trying to avoid the mistakes made after the 2010 earthquake by relying on a centralized group and are now having many Haitian-American organizations and individuals who are directly participating in a variety of initiatives