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Situation Report in English on Haiti about Food and Nutrition, Health, Earthquake, Epidemic and more; published on 7 Jun 2024 by IFRC

Two years after the earthquake of August 14, 2021, UNICEF is stepping up its efforts to enable children in Haiti's southern peninsula to continue their education

Monday, June 5, 2023, Jerry Chandler, the Head of the Civil Protection Office (DPC), in a provisional report declared that at least 12,779 families were affected and at least 13,633 houses flooded in several departments...

Attorneys painted widely different pictures of the former mayor of a Haitian town who is on trial in the U.S., accused of terrorizing his political opponents. The suit against Jean Morose Viliena began Monday in a federal court in Boston. The case highlights the violence and lack of accountability in Haiti’s politics. In openings, the defense said that Viliena was a successful mayor who improved the town. But an attorney for the three plaintiffs who say they or their relatives were violently p...

BOSTON (AP) — Accusations of political violence and terror have followed a former Haitian mayor all the way to a Boston courtroom, where a civil trial began Monday that shines a light on the wider issue of bloodshed and unaccountability in the Caribbean nation's politics.

Prosecutors say Jean Morose Viliena of Malden did not disclose his violent past while applying for a US visa in 2008.

News and Press Release in English on Haiti about Education and Earthquake; published on 27 Mar 2023 by UNICEF

The former mayor of Les Irois, Haiti, was awarded a green card despite his allegedly carrying out political killings, the DOJ alleges. 

Jean Morose Viliena, the former Haitian mayor who has been accused of killing and torturing political opponents, pleaded not guilty to visa fraud.

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