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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 Ministry of the Environment (French: ministère de l’Environnement, MdE) is a ministry of the Government of Haiti. This ministry is responsible for overseeing the environment and natural resources , along with performing an integral role in the Prime Minister's Cabinet.
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 ...
The U.S. Agency for International Development is deploying an elite disaster response team to Haiti “as insecurity, gang violence, and the humanitarian situation worsen” throughout the ...
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 PNH, Haiti's main security agency, has been in talks with counterparts from Kenya, which pledged to lead a long-delayed U.N. security support mission requested by Haiti in 2022.
Then-Kenyan Foreign Minister Alfred Mutua stated that Spain, Senegal, and Chile would likely deploy security personnel. [5] [6] The first contingent of the security force arrived in Haiti on 25 June 2024. [7] As of 3 January 2025, over 500 personnel from Kenya, Jamaica, Belize, the Bahamas, Guatemala, and El Salvador have been deployed to the ...
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 ...