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Canada deploys 70 members of its armed forces to Jamaica to train peacekeepers for a future intervention in Haiti.
2024-03-31

The Biden administration orders U.S. government personnel and their families to leave Haiti, citing "kidnapping, crime, civil unrest, and poor health care infrastructure" in the country.
2023-07-28

One person is killed, another injured and 14 rescued after an overcrowded boat capsizes off the coast of Haiti.
2023-06-3

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that his government is willing to send troops to Haiti as part of a "multinational security assistance deployment".
2023-02-1

Following increased international pressure, Haitian gang leader Jimmy Chérizier announces the end of a blockade that his gang had imposed on a key fuel station, leading to severe shortages.
2022-11-6

The Haiti government rejects an offer from the World Health Organization to receive 756,000 doses of the vaccine produced by AstraZeneca.
2021-04-6

At least 26 people are killed after a truck's brakes fail along a busy street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
2012-01-17

Officials in Haiti say more than 2,000 people have died in the cholera outbreak.
2010-12-6

Politicians and intellectuals including Étienne Balibar, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Eva Joly appeal to Nicolas Sarkozy that France repay €17 billion it took from Haiti in 1825 after the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804); they say the money is "morally, economically, and legally unassailable" in the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake.
2010-08-16