Haiti became the world’s first black led republic and first black independent country after throwing off French colonial in the 19th century also ending slavery on several other territories in the Caribbean. But independence came at crippling cost. Haiti had to pay reparations to France, which demanded compensation for former slave owners. The 19 century "independence debt” was not paid off until 1947. There have been recent calls for France to repay the money.
Once the wealthiest colony in the Americas, Haiti is now western hemisphere’s poorest country, with more than half of it’s population living below the world bank’s poverty line. Foreign intervention and debt, political instability, and natural disasters have stymied the Caribbean country’s development.
Chronic instabilities, corruption, bad governance, corruption, inflation and disasters in recent decades have left it as the poorest and one of the dirtiest nations in the Americas.
A catastrophic magnitude 7.0 w earthquake in 2010 killed more than 200,000 people, left an estimation of 40.2 injuries / 1000 and caused extensive damage to infrastructure and the economy.
On July 7th 2021, unidentified gunmen entered the home of President Jovenel Moïse in the capital, Port-au-Prince, killing him. Since the assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse the country have gotten downhill, since and getting controlled by gangs, Haiti is basically striving with a weak government and without a President, dealing with poverty and insecurity on a greater scale!
With gang violence and kidnappings raging on, the help that Haiti used to get to make small efforts has slowly been declining, which is nonprofit aid and mission teams because they can’t really come to Haiti to bring help because it’s so Risky!
French used mostly in school system and official documents, while Haitian Creole being the mother tongue
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Over 1/3 of the population lacks access to clean water and 2/3 have limited or no sanitation service. More than 1/3 of Haitians ( 4.4 million ) live with food insecurity, and 217,000 children suffer moderate to severe malnutrition.
Every year mostly from June to November large segments of the population suffers from hurricanes, flooding, landslides, droughts and earthquakes. The effects of hurricanes and tropical storms such as wind damage, inland flooding and coastal surge are of significant concern.
Ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis in Haiti has been marked by rising energy crisis due to the global energy crisis, as well as protests and civil unrest against the government of Haiti, armed gang violence, an outbreak of cholera, shortages of fuel and clean drinking water and widespread of acute hunger. It’s all a continuation of instability and protests that began in 2018.
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