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Tropical storm Jeanne skimmed the north coast of Haiti, leaving 3,006 people dead in flooding and mudslides, mostly in the city of Gonaïves. [3] Earlier that year in May, floods killed over 3,000 people on Haiti's southern border with the Dominican Republic. [4] Haiti was again pummeled by tropical storms in late August and early September 2008.
The Disaster Assistance Response Team, also known as a DART, is “assessing needs and working closely with the U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince, humanitarian partners, and the Haitian people to ...
This ethos is critical in addressing one of Haitii’s most pressing issues: national security. For close to three years, the Haitian people have asked for three main things from the international ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -At least five agents of Haiti's BSAP, an armed environmental agency that in recent years has evolved into a paramilitary body, were killed in a shootout with national ...
Environmental issues in Haiti include a historical deforestation problem, overpopulation, a lack of sanitation, natural disasters, and food insecurity. The major reasons for these environmental issues are corruption, human exploitation, and the embezzlement of taxpayers' funds for personal gains.
The United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti (UNTMIH) was a four-month mission which took place between 30 July 1997 and 30 November 1997. UNTMIH was the third United Nations peacekeeping operation in Haiti, [1] and was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1123, adopted on 30 July 1997.
Haiti's de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry traveled to Nairobi, Kenya in late February to negotiate a plan to have a new U.N.-authorized security support mission serve to help quell Haiti's out ...
The Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti is an international police and military force approved by the United Nations Security Council on 2 October 2023 to assist the government of Haiti in restoring law and order amid worsening civil strife and gang violence since 2018.