Haiti is currently led by a Transitional Presidential Council that resulted from an agreement made on April 3 between several ...

Haitian essayist and speaker Monique Clesca urges President Emmanuel Macron to ... of the Transitional Presidential Council, Edgard Leblanc Fils, at the United Nations. His successor, Leslie ...

With a fleet of offshore French ships aiming their cannons at Haiti, President Jean-Pierre Boyer ... Leslie Voltaire and Edgar Leblanc Fils, later followed suit. Voltaire, after visiting Paris ...

But the situation worsened dramatically after the July 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, which created a power vacuum. Haitian security forces patrol during a protest against ...

In 2002, Haiti’s former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide argued that France should pay his country US$21 billion. The reason? In 1825, France extracted a huge indemnity from the young nation ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Marlene L. Daut is a Professor of French and African ...

Dorcénat previously served as head of the commission after it was reactivated by Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Formed by executive order in 2006, its task is to disarm and dismantle gangs ...

On January 1, the now-former president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, Leslie Voltaire, urged France to “repay the debt of independence and reparations for slavery”.