• Events in the year 2020 in Haiti. President: Jovenel Moïse Prime Minister: Fritz-William Michel (acting) February 13 – Fifteen children die in a fire in an...
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    Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas...
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    Haiti competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23...
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    Protests began in cities throughout Haiti on 7 July 2018 in response to increased fuel prices. Over time, these protests evolved into demands for the resignation...
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    Haiti made its first appearance at the Olympic Games in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. The 1924 Summer Olympics in the same city marked Haiti's first...
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    Since 2020, Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince has been the site of an ongoing gang war between two major groups and their allies: the Revolutionary Forces...
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    The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New...
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  • (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Haiti in March 2020. The index case was in Port-au-Prince. As of 14 September 2021, there are 21...
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    Haitians (French: Haïtiens, Haitian Creole: Ayisyen) are the citizens of Haiti and the descendants in the diaspora through direct parentage. An ethnonational...
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  • in Haiti Internet, radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones. There are 4 Internet service providers serving the country – NATCOM, Access Haiti,...
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    Haitian Americans (French: Haïtiens-Américains; Haitian Creole: ayisyen ameriken) are a group of Americans of full or partial Haitian origin or descent...
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    The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake that struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010...
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    Haiti has a free market economy with low labor costs. A republic, it was a French colony before gaining independence in an uprising by its enslaved people...
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    the equivalent of US$21 billion in 2020 terms from the Haitian economy. For comparison, Haiti's nominal GDP in 2020 stood at 14.508 billion USD. The...
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    Haiti is the 83rd most populous country in the world, with an estimated population of 11,123,178 as of July 2018. However the last census done in Haiti...
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    Jimmy Chérizier (category CS1 Haitian Creole-language sources (ht))
    Jimmy Chérizier, nicknamed Barbecue (Haitian Creole: Babekyou, born 30 March 1977), is a Haitian gang leader, former police officer, and warlord who is...
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    The flag of Haiti (French: drapeau d'Haïti, Haitian Creole: drapo Ayiti) is the national flag of the Republic of Haiti. It is a bicolour flag featuring...
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  • The Haiti national football team (French: Équipe d'Haïti de football, Haitian Creole: Ekip foutbòl Ayiti) represents Haiti in international football....
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    state of Haiti since the beginning of the Haitian Revolution in 1791. Full independence of Haiti was declared in 1804. Between 1806 and 1820 Haiti was divided...
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    to the invention of modern sanitation. The disease was reintroduced to Haiti in October 2010, not long after the disastrous earthquake earlier that year...
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    Empire of Haiti, officially known as the Empire of Haiti (French: Empire d'Haïti; Haitian Creole: Anpi an Ayiti), was an elective monarchy in North America...
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    Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Jan-Jak Desalin; French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak dɛsalin]; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was the first Haitian Emperor,...
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    (French: Sénat, Haitian Creole: Sena) is the upper house of Haiti's bicameral legislature, the Haitian Parliament. The lower house of the Haitian Parliament...
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    tɔʁty]; Haitian Creole: Latòti; Spanish: Isla Tortuga, IPA: [ˈisla toɾˈtuɣa], Turtle Island) is a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the...
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    Little Haiti (French: La Petite Haïti, Haitian Creole: Ti Ayiti), is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. It is known historically as Lemon...
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    The Dominican Republic–Haiti border is an international border between the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Extending...
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    The Haitian Revolution (French: révolution haïtienne or French: La guerre de l'indépendance French pronunciation: [ʁevɔlysjɔ̃ a.i.sjɛn]; Haitian Creole:...
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    Agriculture in Haiti describes the tortured agricultural history of an island nation once described as the "Pearl of the Antilles. The Taíno Indians were...
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    current and historical political parties in Haiti. Haiti is a country on the western side of Hispaniola, an island in the Caribbean. Few political parties...
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  • holidays in Haiti. Many Vodou holidays are also celebrated, but are not considered public holidays. The two most important holidays for Haitian Americans...
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