Tag: Haiti
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Two hundred years after: The evil French freedom tax on Haiti – By Owei Lakemfa
It was a day of mourning. Thursday, April 17, 2025 was exactly 200 years France imposed an evil tax on Haiti for daring to stop slavery and securing its independence. Haiti, until today, is in deep crises mainly due to the debilitating effects of that criminal tax and, interferences by Europe and the United States, US.
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IOM records 22% increase in people displaced in Haiti
A breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across Haiti have displaced more than 700,000 people – one in two of them children, the UN migration office, IOM has said. New data from the International Organisation for Migration, on Wednesday indicates, a 22 per cent
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Nigeria is on the road to Haiti, not Venezuela – By Owei Lakemfa
THE Nigerian masses are troubled. They are hungry, angry and losing faith in civil rule. The times call for leaders at all levels to be at work, seeking solutions. Unfortunately, many government officials are spending scarce resources and precious time carrying out propaganda.
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‘They thought I was dead’, wife of murdered Haiti president recounts ordeal with assassins
The wife of Haiti’s murdered president, seriously wounded in the very attack that killed her husband, listened in terror as the gunmen ransacked their home, she said in her first interview since the assassination. The killers eventually found what they were looking for in president Jovenel Moise’s residence, and made cursory efforts on their way…
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Police capture alleged mastermind of Haiti president’s murder
Haiti’s national police on Sunday announced the arrest of the suspected mastermind in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. A Haitian doctor living in the U.S. state of Florida was arrested, police chief Leon Charles said at a news conference. The suspected killers called him after the attack and evidence was found in his flat,…
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Haitian doctor Emmanuel Sanon named as mastermind of Moise’s assassination
Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian doctor with long-standing ties to South Florida has been implicated in last Wednesday’s assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. Sanon, who has lived in Florida on and off for more than 20 years, is suspected of being one of the ring leaders of the hit squad that killed Moise. Sanon…
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Haitian Americans James Solage, Vincent among suspects in President Moise’s assassination (Photo)
Two Haitian Americans, James Solage and Joseph Vincent were among the six suspects arrested by Haitian police in connection with the assassination on Wednesday of President Jovenel Moise. Four other suspects were killed in a standoff between the police and the suspects. And latest reports said as many as 28 suspects have been identified, with…
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BREAKING: President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise assassinated
The President of Haiti, Jovenel Moise has been assassinated. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports President Moise was assassinated at his private residence. The Haitian president was assassinated in an overnight attack, with his wife also wounded. Protests calling for his ouster started in 2018, leading into a civil conflict with over 200 dead to date. Prime Minister,…