La flambée des prix du carburant, liée à la hausse du pétrole mondial, pousse de nombreux Haïtiens à réduire leurs déplacements et leurs repas, dans un pays déjà touché par une grave crise alimentaire.
La hausse récente des prix du carburant pèse lourdement sur une population déjà confrontée à la faim et à la pauvreté, en Haïti. Le gouvernement a annoncé le 2 avril une augmentation de 37 % du diesel et de 29 % de l’essence. Cette décision intervient dans un contexte où les prix du pétrole ont augmenté à l’échelle mondiale, notamment en lien avec le conflit en Iran.
More than 1,000 workers organized a protest Monday in Haiti’s capital to demand a higher minimum wage as the conflict in Iran deepens, driving up oil prices.
Workers at the state-owned Metropolitan Industrial Park, informally known as Sonapi, gathered outside its gates in Port-au-Prince and shouted, “When we are hungry, we don’t mess around!”
Employees noted that they haven’t had a raise since 2023, and that they can no longer afford basic goods given that Haiti’s government increased diesel prices by 37% and gasoline prices by 29% earlier this month.
Heavily armed gangs attacked Haiti’s central region over the weekend, killing men, women and children as they set fire to homes and forced survivors to flee into the darkness.
Police made emergency calls for backup, asserting that 50% of the Artibonite region had fallen under gang control after the large-scale attacks targeting towns including Bercy and Pont-Sondé.
The United Nations warned Monday that Haiti is “rapidly becoming a central hub” for international drug trafficking as gangs in the country expand ties with organized crime networks abroad, amid a worsening security crisis.
The UN said criminal gangs are increasingly battling for control of territory in the capital and beyond, forcing hundreds of thousands of Haitians into displacement and worsening the nation’s humanitarian and economic crises.
Haïti se dote d’un nouveau plan directeur de vulgarisation agricole pour la période 2025–2035. Ce type d’initiative peut offrir de vraies opportunités de reconstruction et de redynamisation économique, notamment pour les zones rurales, ce qui peut bénéficier largement à de nombreuses familles.
Réunies à CODEVI, ce vendredi 17 avril 2026, les autorités diplomatiques haïtiennes et dominicaines ont relancé le dialogue bilatéral et convenu de la réouverture de l’espace aérien entre les deux pays dès le 1er mai.
During this meeting, both parties agreed to open the airspace between the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti, allowing air connections between Dominican airports and the Cap-Haïtien International Airport, starting in May 2026. This measure aims to facilitate mobility, boost economic ties, and strengthen relations between the two countries.
With new data showing more than half of all Haitians continue to face acute food insecurity, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is urgently calling for support to protect recent fragile gains in the fight against hunger and to foster stability in the struggling Caribbean nation.
An updated analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) reveals 5.8 million Haitians —roughly 52 percent of the population— are facing crisis levels or worse of food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above). Of those, more than 1.8 million are enduring emergency food insecurity levels (IPC Phase 4) for the period of March to June 2026, meaning they are exhausting their last assets and unable to meet even basic food needs.