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Accordingly, La Croix transitioned into a daily newspaper on 16 June 1883. [citation needed] Father Emmanuel d'Alzon (1810–1880), the founder of the Assumptionists and the Oblates of the Assumption, started the paper. Also, La Croix's biggest early advocate was Father Vincent de Paul Bailly. La Bonne Presse was the first publishing house of ...
On 2 and 3 March, armed gangs stormed the two largest prisons in Haiti, one in Croix des Bouquets, the other in Port-au-Prince. [12] More than 4,700 inmates escaped. [ 10 ] Police were reported to be undermanned and outgunned by the gangs, with only 9,000 operating in Haiti at the time of the fighting. [ 13 ]
France is organising government-chartered flights from Haiti to help its nationals seeking to leave the Caribbean country, which has been gripped by gang violence, the French foreign ministry said ...
12 January – Former MP Prophane Victor is arrested in Port-au-Prince on charges of colluding with gang members operating in Artibonite Department. [4] 22 January – Colombian president Gustavo Petro arrives in Jacmel as part of his visit to Haiti. [5]
The white-supremacist ideology that justified slavery could not accept a stable, prosperous Haiti founded by self-emancipated slaves, human-rights lawyers write. France demanded crippling payments.
A subsequent Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report released on 30 September 2024 stated that citizens in capital Port-au-Prince as well as in northern, southern, and central Haiti faced "urgent" levels of hunger. 5,636 people were reported to be in famine conditions (IPC Phase 5, its highest), described in the report as having no ...
Bref coup d'oeil sur les origines de la presse haïtienne, 1764-1850 (in French). Jean Desquiron (ed.). Haïti à la une: une anthologie de la presse haïtienne de 1724 à 1934 (in French). OCLC 30509786. (6 volumes, 1993–1997)
A riot began at the prison in Croix-des-Bouquets, a commune in the Ouest department of Haiti. More than 400 prisoners escaped during the jailbreak. During the fight, eight people died at the scene, including Paul Hector Joseph, the prison's director.