Two centuries to the day after France imposed a crippling debt on Haiti in exchange for its independence, a UN forum has ...

Haiti, which declared its independence on Jan. 1, 1804, and defeated Napoleon’s army soon after, didn’t have the money to pay ...

On Thursday, April 17, 2025, as part of the bicentennial of Haiti's independence debt, the Élysée Palace published a ...

The cost of independence Haiti officially declared its independence from France on Jan. 1, 1804. In October 1806, following ...

A joint commission of French and Haitian historians will examine the contentious issue of the huge sum that Paris forced its ...

The French president announced the commission on the 200th anniversary of France ordering Haiti to pay a debt for its freedom ...

A large number of Latin American social organizations and personalities, such as Argentine 1980 Nobel Peace Prize laureate ...

In this authoritative, elegant biography, Daut draws a complex, contradictory portrait of Henry Christophe, also known as King Henry.

“France granted an independence that had already been hard-won in 1804, on condition that Haiti gave it privileged access to its wealth and compensated the former colonists,” adds ...

EDITORIAL. President Emmanuel Macron has made a significant gesture by publicly admitting that forcing the Republic of Haiti ...

Haiti officially declared its independence from France on Jan. 1, 1804. In October 1806, following the assassination of Haiti’s first head of state, the country was split into two, with ...