Haiti summons French ambassador after Macron called its leaders ‘morons’

Haiti’s government has summoned the French ambassador to the country to protest about “unfriendly and inappropriate” comments from Emmanuel Macron, who was caught on camera calling the country’s leaders “morons”. The French president had on Wednesday …

Haiti’s unelected prime minister ousted amid surging gang and state violence, increasing social misery

Haiti’s interim prime minister was ousted last week by the Transitional Council—the government “oversight mechanism” that the US, Canada and various factions of the country’s bourgeois elite put together earlier this year to provide a fig leaf of “popular” …

Virtual Summit Links Fascism to Haiti’s Climate Crisis

Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. Haiti is one of the countries that contribute least to global climate change, with 83.6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions since 1751 compared to the United States’ 426. …

Gangs tighten their grip on Haiti as peacekeeping debate dra...

Violence in Haiti claimed 150 lives this week, bringing the death toll from gang warfare to over 4,000 this year. The intensifying conflict is centred on control of Port-au-Prince, where gangs dominate 80 percent of the city and hold residents hostage. …

More than 100 suspected gang members have been killed as vigilantism grows in Haiti

At least 108 suspected gang members have been killed in Haiti over three days, a Port-au-Prince human rights group has reported. The National Human Rights Defense Network’s findings are the first real assessment of the toll of the recent upsurge in …

Action Against Hunger Condemns Attacks in Haiti

November 22, 2024 Haiti Population: 11.5 million People in Need: 4.9 million Our Impact People Helped Last Year: 504,344 Our Team: 120 employees Program Start: 1985 Organization Calls for Protection of Humanitarian Workers As violence escalates in Haiti, …

Macron in trouble over Haiti 'morons' remark: European leaders' worst hot mic moments

Several prominent European leaders have been caught out by comments they made when they thought their microphones were switched off. This week, French President Emmanuel Macron was caught in a hot mic moment at the G20 summit in Brazil, with his comments …

Army officers in Dominican Republic arrested for stealing weapons and selling into Haiti

AUTHORITIES in the Dominican Republic have arrested a colonel and nine officers accused of stealing weapons and ammunition from the police department’s armoury and illegally selling them into neighbouring Haiti, it was reported on Thursday. The crackdown …

FAA Allows US Airlines To Resume Flights To Northern Haiti After Ban

Macron Slammed for Calling Haiti’s Transitional Council ‘Total Morons’

French President Emmanuel Macron sparked controversy after calling Haiti’s transitional council “total morons” for ousting Prime Minister Garry Conille, a decision he described as “terrible.” The comments, made during a conversation at the G20 summit in …