UNITED NATIONS — The cholera outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people in Haiti was caused by a South Asian strain that contaminated a river where tens of thousands of people wash, bathe ...

Ten years after a cholera epidemic swept through Haiti and killed nearly 10,000 people, ... Paul has resorted to washing clothes for people in the same river that became contaminated, ...

In this context, the September 26 communiqué of the OAS general secretariat stated that “Haiti and the Dominican Republic have equal rights of use over the Dajabón or Massacre river and that ...

Haiti's heartland under attack. Gran Grif is the largest gang to operate in the central Artibonite region. It was blamed for an attack in the central town of Pont-Sondé in October 2024, where ...

A Bermudian charity worker in Haiti has appealed for help after villages there were washed away in floods. The impoverished country is still recovering from a devastating earthquake that left ...

Ten months after suffering “the largest urban disaster in modern history” – a devastating 7.0-magnitude (MMS) earthquake on January 12, 2010 that killed over 316,000 and affected 3 million – Haiti ...

However, Anderson said, a negative from the weather was salt washing into the river as runoff from sidewalks and roads. “We ...

On this Newsbuzz edition of River to River, host Ben Kieffer talks with UI professor Dimy Doresca about how Haiti's political instability and extreme gang violence following the murder of ...

Like the rest of the Caribbean, Haiti has not seen Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria that causes cholera, for 50 years. Since it first appeared in India in 1816, cholera has circled the globe in waves ...

The Dominican Republic will close its busy land border with Haiti starting Friday at 6 a.m. amid an escalating conflict over Haitian plans to divert part of the river that divides the two nations.