Actualité

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.