NOVANEWS By Jean Saint-Vil Jafrikayiti On Sussex Drive in Ottawa, just a few steps away from the enormous US embassy, stands the Peacekeeping Monument. The structure titled “Reconciliation” was erected to honour the more than […]
NOVANEWS Guy Philippe participates in a march into the city of Gonaives, Haiti, Feb. 19, 2004. | Photo: Reuters. Philippe, a paramilitary who helped lead the 2004 U.S-backed coup to oust Aristide, was arrested days […]
NOVANEWS Haitians protest the Dominican government’s immigration law reform earlier this year. | Photo: Reuters. Many around the continent are attracted to Chile’s strong economy, but this is also causing housing issues in the Andean […]
NOVANEWS Joel Leon The amalgamation of a failed private sector with kidnapping, drug trafficking, and bad government constitutes the most important reason that explains Haiti’s failure in its quest to build a nation-state. Unfortunately, the […]
NOVANEWS Hougan Sydney Ezili Danto Outgoing President Michel Martelly’s handpicked successor, Jovenel Moïse, won disputed elections setting off protests. If Haitians had a real leader, like Moise Jean Charles, democratically elected, that leader would want […]
NOVANEWS By Kim Ives Global Research United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who will step down at the end of this month, made his most explicit apology yet for the UN’s role and responsibility […]
NOVANEWS Getty Images Ezili Danto If Trump can stop a third Obama term; if Trump pledges to Haitian-Americans that when he becomes President he will stop funding the rapist UN troops in Haiti, Haitians who […]
NOVANEWS By Edna Bonhomme Destruction left by Hurricane Matthew in Jeremie, a small city in western Haiti, October 6, 2016. (Photo: Logan Abassi / MINUSTAH via The New York Times) Haiti is enduring another not-so-natural […]