by Colette Lespinasse | Oct 3, 2022 | Articles from COEH, Topics
Since July 2022, the Haitian population can no longer find fuel in gas pumps, but instead at high prices in the streets. This problem, added to so many others, including traffic difficulties in the southern part of the capital for over a year now, growing insecurity,...
by Colette Lespinasse and Els Hortensius | Sep 21, 2022 | Articles from COEH, Topics
On September 14, the Haitian government announced a more than 100% increase in gasoline prices. The reason would be that the public treasury is empty and the government has no more money to operate. This is why it was decided to end the fuel subsidy. In reaction the...
by Colette Lespinasse | Aug 23, 2022 | Articles from COEH, Topics
Reconstruction is still overdue, but there is hope This August 14, 2022, it has already been a year since a powerful earthquake of 7.2 magnitude on the Richter scale shook the Grand Sud (Great South) of Haiti. For this first anniversary, some remembrance activities...
by Els Hortensius | Jul 25, 2022 | Articles from COEH, Topics
No end to arms trade and gang wars “Violence in Haiti. Dozens dead fighting for control,” read the BBC News headline in mid-July. Is it still relevant news? Or take this headline, three days later: “Gang Violence in Haiti: The ‘UN prohibits the trade in small...
by Colette Lespinasse | Jun 18, 2022 | Articles from COEH, Topics
What aid would be useful for Haiti in the current situation? This was the theme of an online conference on June 8, 2022, organized by the Coordination Europe Haiti (COEH) and the Collectif Haiti de France (CHF), to initiate a debate on the issue of international aid...
