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Gangs exchange gunfire with police and soldiers in an attempt to seize control of Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
2024-03-4

Haitian authorities announce an unexpected resurgence of cholera in the country and report that at least seven people have died from the disease.
2022-10-2

Two journalists are killed and their bodies burned during a gang attack in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
2022-01-6

Three of the seven Catholic clergy who were kidnapped in Croix-des-Bouquets, Ouest, Haiti, on April 11 are released.
2021-04-22

The death toll rises to 9 as protesters ask for Jovenel Moïse to step down as president of Haiti. The protest started February 7.
2019-02-14

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security discontinues the eligibility of citizens of Belize, Haiti, and Samoa to obtain H-2A and H-2B visas for temporary work.
2018-01-17

Chile confirms its first case of sexually transmitted Zika virus. The case involves a 46-year-old woman whose partner was infected while in Haiti.
2016-03-26

Investigators claim to have found the wreck of Christopher Columbus's flagship, the "Santa Maria", off the north coast of Haiti.
2014-05-13

Officials suggest Haiti's first democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is to return there tomorrow after seven years exile in South Africa. The U.S. expresses concern at this development, fearing Aristide could "destabalise" Haiti.
2011-03-17

The International Monetary Fund cancels Haiti's $268 million debt and approves a new three-year loan worth $60 million; the IMF expects Haiti to start paying back interest in late 2011.
2010-07-22