If you liked this story, share it with other people. Haiti is facing a profound political and economic crisis. Functional governance that serves the interests of Haiti’s people is largely nonexistent.

Currently, between 30% to 50% of all gang members in the violence-wracked country are children, according to the U.N. “This is a very concerning trend,” said Geeta Narayan, UNICEF’s representative in ...

* Farming sector crushed by cheaper rice, sugar imports * Calls for farm investment to boost post-quake recovery * Lone working sugar mill hamstrung by shortage of cane By Pascal Fletcher LEOGANE, ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's government has banned all charter flights to Nicaragua that migrants fleeing poverty and violence had been increasingly using in their quest to reach the United ...

Food riots last week in Haiti resulted in the deaths of six Haitians and a U.N. peacekeeper — and in the ouster of Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis. These events grimly illustrate how the rising ...

Recently, I got a barrage of the same text message. The New York Times wrote about Haiti and it was important — because The New York Times wrote about it. The Times published a lengthy article about ...

This week on "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear speaks with filmmaker and author Gerry Straub about his life making documentaries about extreme poverty around the world, and then his move to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s ...

LEOGANE, Haiti (Reuters) - Laborers at Haiti's only working sugar mill, the Jean Leopold Dominique de Darbonne, chew on sugar cane stalks to sustain themselves as they prepare the factory for another ...