Haiti

Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, has made UNESCO’s cultural heritage list. The syncopated rhythm, created in the 1950s, wafts from bars, bedrooms and businesses across Haiti, lifting spirits and providing solace from the country’s grinding poverty and soaring gang violence.

At the draw for the 2026 men's soccer World Cup at the Kennedy Center in freezing Washington, D.C, there was pomp and glitz — and convoluted rules — as a host of celebrities, sports legends and President Donald Trump helped to flesh out the line-up of matches for the tournament's opening group stage.

The murder and immolation of Bazelais Merantus, a disabled man praised as kind and resilient, underscores the worsening savagery of Haiti's gangs as they move beyond Port-au-Prince. Can a new multinational police initiative stop them?

FANM officials argue that TPS holders from Haiti and other countries contribute billions annually to the U.S. economy and pay $5.2 billion each year in federal, payroll, state, and local taxes.

Haiti’s transitional presidential council has adopted an electoral law in the latest step toward holding a general election for the first time in nearly a decade. The adoption late Monday means the government can finally publish an official electoral calendar.

He is blaming immigrants for problems from crime to housing shortages as part of “social dysfunction” in America and demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION.”

The U.S. government has imposed visa restrictions on Fritz Alphonse Jean, a member of Haiti's transitional presidential council, and accused him of supporting gangs. The U.S. also accuses Jean of obstructing Haiti's fight against the gangs that control 90% of Haiti's capital and extort businesses using military-grade weaponry.

COMMENTARY Haiti's remarkable qualification for the 2026 soccer World Cup won't rescue it from the country's gangs — but it reminds us that Haiti undoubtedly is worth saving from that monstrous evil.

Haiti returns to World Cup after more than five decades and Curaçao has made history by becoming the smallest nation by population to qualify for a World Cup.

For decades, the United Nations has intervened in Haiti in a bid to address persistent political, economic and security crises. To date, all attempts have failed.

A spiritual healer who seamlessly bridges the worlds of art and medicine, Guillaume's unique perspective comes into sharp focus during this month's Fèt Gede celebration.

The outbreak, tied to the rainy season, is spreading throughout and around the capital, Port-au-Prince, as its health infrastructure nears collapse and insecurity escalates.