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Soup, cassava, now konpa: Haitian music makes UNESCO ‘cultural heritage’ list
on Wednesday, both the sound known as konpa or konpa direk — and the country where the rhythm was born 70 years ago — got some good news: The music was inscribed in UNESCO’s coveted list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Haiti secures major troop offers for new anti-gang fighting force
Haiti’s new Gang Suppression Force appears poised to meet its ambitious target of 5,500 troops, after a number of nations, including Chad and Bangladesh, offered to deploy soldiers, engineers and police offices to help the country’s beleaguered security forces combat armed gangs.
Haiti’s Sunrise Airways suspends domestic flights after bullet hits aircraft
A domestic flight was struck by bullets on Sunday while landing at the Guy Malary terminal of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, sources told the Miami Herald.
The aircraft, operated by Sunrise Airways, was arriving from Les Cayes in the country’s southwest region. No injuries were reported.
Haiti’s elections council has submitted an election law, and people are worried
As U.S. pressure mounts for Haiti’s transitional authorities to move the country toward long-overdue elections, human rights advocates are warning that a critical gap in a proposed election decree leaves the door wide open for gang members and bad actors who have never been convicted in Haiti, to run for office.
Haiti police seize high-powered ‘weapon of war,’ kill several gang members
Several alleged gang members were killed in Haiti on Friday during intensified security operations in the eastern plains of Port-au-Prince, where police successfully recovered a high-powered sniper rifle known as a “weapon of war” but were forced to destroy a helicopter used in their operations.