A high-voltage cable that fell on a parade float in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday caused a stampede that killed at least 20 people on the second day of Carnival celebrations.
On Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake reduced the impoverished island country of Haiti to rubble, leaving 220,000 dead, another 300,000 injured, and more than a million homeless. Among those that survived also lost limbs to falling walls and…
NEW YORK — Individual Americans, rich or not, donated generously in response to many recent international disasters, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and last year's Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The response to the Ebola epidemic is far less…
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier died of a heart attack on Saturday, his lawyer said. He was 63.
Three years ago in Haiti, as the country struggled to recover from a devastating earthquake, a river near a United Nations base was poisoned with cholera; hundreds of thousands of people have been infected. Inigo Gilmore of Independent Television News…
As many as 30 people may have died when Haitian migrant boat capsized off Bahamas - officials http://t.co/ceYSvgwHzS pic.twitter.com/bQWsjb5Jtd— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) November 26, 2013…
A Hatian woman receives a vaccine for cholera.Photo by Jon Lascher A group of human rights lawyers are suing the U.N. on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Haitians who have contracted cholera since the 2010 earthquake. The…
Edwidge Danticat Reads an Excerpt from ‘Claire of the Sea Light’…
Edwidge Danticat Reaches Back -- and Forward -- in Her New Novel Set in Haiti…
In a seaside town in Haiti, a fisherman's daughter goes missing on her seventh birthday. What happens to the community as they search for her is the subject of a new novel, "Claire of the Sea Light." Acclaimed author Edwidge…
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