Country Profile: Haiti

Country Profile: Haiti

The photos, facts, and politics of Haiti.

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NI 552 - Disinformation - November, 2024
A woman walks past the smoking, empty National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on 14 March 2024.Photo: Odelyn Joseph/AP/Alamy

In the US’ shadow

Report on the multi-prong crisis sweeping Haiti, by Harold Isaac.

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NI 550 - Abortion - July, 2024
Amidst intense violence in the city, a child watches from an opening in a security gate in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 9 March 2024.Photo: Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo/Alamy

Held to ransom

Haiti’s so-called ‘independence debt’ helped lay the ground for the crisis in the country today. Harold Isaac reports.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
Saviour or failure?

Saviour or failure?

Gabriella Jóźwiak reports on the civil unrest in Haiti.

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NI 547 - Climate capitalism - January, 2024
Residents of the Cité Soleil area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, gather water from a well on 10 November 2010, two days after cases of cholera were confirmed in the area.Photo: Brian Blanco/Zuma Press/Alamy

Something in the water

When UN peacekeepers brought cholera to Haiti, it triggered the world’s worst outbreak. Sophie Cousins reports on how the country has rid itself of the disease, but the fight for justice goes on.

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NI 538 - Rivers of life - July, 2022

Haiti: where’s the money?

Where is the Petro-Caribe money??? #PetroCaribeChallenge

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NI 519 - How to avoid climate breakdown - May, 2019
Sons of Kemet – historical pride and Afro-futurism.

Mixed Media: Music

Your Queen Is a Reptile by Sons of Kemet and Radyo Siwèl, by Mélissa Laveaux.

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NI 510 - Black Lives Matter - March, 2018
A youngster sits outside the headquarters of the Movement for Liberty and Equality of Haitians for Brotherhood (MOLEGHAF) in Fort National, Port-au-Prince. The grassroots group has been vocal in its criticism of the country’s UN mission.Photo: Brian Fitzpatrick and Michael Norby

‘We’re fighting for a change’

The TV cameras have long departed, but four years after the earthquake, Haiti remains a country in crisis. Brian Fitzpatrick and Michael Norby report from Port-au-Prince on how hunger and violence rule the roost in a situation nearing boiling point.

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NI 474 - Feminism fights back - July, 2014
We will be free! This revolt was against an
unpopular leader in 1908 . Haitians have
had to contend with all too many dictators
and exploitative governments.Mary Evans Picture Library

Occupied Again

The first independent country of the Americas-but Eduardo Galeano asks will Haiti ever be free?

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NI 449 - Haiti two years on - January, 2012
Tents beyond tents

Tents beyond tents

A cartoon introduction to life in the camps in and around Port-au-Prince.

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NI 449 - Haiti two years on - January, 2012
A street vendor in Port-au-
Prince. 
Most Haitians
are still waiting for
reconstruction 
to begin.Julio Etchart/Panos

Haiti: where did all the money go?

More than $10 billion was raised worldwide for Haiti after the earthquake. But, two years on, what have NGOs done with the cash? Nick Harvey investigates.

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NI 449 - Haiti two years on - January, 2012
Haiti two years on: beyond relief, beyond belief

Haiti two years on: beyond relief, beyond belief

Haiti is not just recovering from the
earthquake but from the political and
economic interventions of recent decades, as
Phillip Wearne explains.

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NI 449 - Haiti two years on - January, 2012
Churchgoers walk through the ruins of Notre Dame Cathedral in Port-au-Prince on the first anniversary of the 2010 earthquakeJacob Kushner

Haiti

A profile of the troubled Caribbean nation.

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NI 443 - The far right gets respectable - June, 2011
Battered on all sides

Battered on all sides

It’s not just hurricanes that the people of Haiti are struggling against.

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NI 425 - Where have all the Bees gone? - September, 2009

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Disinformation November, 2024
Abortion July, 2024
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Climate capitalism January, 2024
Rivers of life July, 2022
How to avoid climate breakdown May, 2019
Black Lives Matter March, 2018
Feminism fights back July, 2014
Haiti two years on January, 2012
Haiti two years on January, 2012
Haiti two years on January, 2012
Haiti two years on January, 2012
The far right gets respectable June, 2011
Where have all the Bees gone? September, 2009
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