At least 30 dead in Haiti after visit to mountaintop fortress turns tragic
At least 30 people are dead, many of them school-age children as young as 12, after a gathering advertised on TikTok turned tragic on Saturday at Haiti’s premier mountaintop fortress.
The deaths were confirmed by Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, who told the Miami Herald “the government is mobilizing” the ministry of health, justices of the peace to respond to the tragedy.
The deaths occurred at the historic Citadelle Laferrière fortress in the town of Milot when heavy rains sent the children into a panic, triggering a stampede around 4 p.m.
Drame à la Citadelle: au moins 30 morts et des dizaines de blessés
D’après le directeur du bureau de la protection civile pour le nord d’Haïti, le bilan pourrait encore s’alourdir en raison du grand nombre de personnes portées disparues.
Haïti : des accusations de viol visant des membres de la force internationale suscitent un bras de fer entre l’ONU et le Kenya
Un rapport des Nations unies affirme que quatre cas de viol impliquant des membres de la force multinationale déployée en Haïti sous direction kényane ont été corroborés, dont un impliquant une fillette de 12 ans. Le Kenya conteste ces conclusions.
La question des violences sexuelles impliquant des forces étrangères en Haïti est au centre de l’actualité internationale.
Testimony in Miami trial details final hours before Haiti president was killed
“We acted illegally against a power that was in place illegally.” During more than three days of testimony in a federal trial in Miami, former senator Joseph Joël John details efforts to depose Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
UN warns of rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in Haiti (Video Press Conference: Edem Wosornu)
A senior UN humanitarian official on Friday warned that Haiti is facing one of the most “severe and rapidly deteriorating” humanitarian crises in the Western Hemisphere, with more than half its population in urgent need of aid.
During a press briefing in New York following a recent visit to Haiti, Edem Wosornu, director of the Crisis Response Division at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said 6.4 million people now require humanitarian assistance out of a population of nearly 12 million.
