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Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country in the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western side of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean by area, and with an estimated population of 11.4 million, it is the most populous Caribbean country.0 The capital and largest city is Port-au-Prince.

Haiti is a founding member of the United Nations, Organization of American States, Association of Caribbean States, and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. In addition to CARICOM, it is a member of the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. (Full article...)

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The 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak was the first modern large-scale outbreak of cholera—a disease once considered under control largely due to the invention of modern sanitation. The disease was reintroduced to Haiti in October 2010, not long after the disastrous earthquake earlier that year, and since then cholera has spread across the country and become endemic, causing high levels of both morbidity and mortality. Nearly 800,000 Haitians have been infected by cholera, and more than 9,000 have died, according to the United Nations (UN). Following the outbreak's conclusion in February 2019, cholera transmission in Haiti is largely the subject of eradication efforts including WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), education, oral vaccination, and climate variability. Early efforts were made to cover up the source of the epidemic, but thanks largely to the investigations of journalist Jonathan M. Katz and epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux, it is widely believed to be the result of contamination by infected United Nations peacekeepers deployed from Nepal. In terms of total infections, the outbreak has since been surpassed by the war-fueled 2016–2021 Yemen cholera outbreak, although the Haiti outbreak is still one of the most deadly modern outbreaks. After a three-year hiatus, new cholera cases reappeared in October 2022. (Full article...)

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...that Hurricane Gordon was a Category 1 hurricane that killed 1,122 people in Haiti in 1994 and that the hurricane name was not retired by the World Meteorological Organization?
...that the African-American dancer Lavinia Williams gave up ballet stardom in the United States to spend decades developing national schools of Caribbean traditional dance in Haiti, Guyana, and the Bahamas?
...that the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis, a disease caused by burrowing fleas?

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The National Palace of Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake

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Image 1Citadelle Laferrière, built by Henri Christophe, is the largest fortress in the Americas. (from History of Haiti)
Image 2United States Marines and a Haitian guide patrolling the jungle in 1915 during the Battle of Fort Dipitie (from History of Haiti)
Image 3Jean-Jacques Dessalines (from History of Haiti)
Image 4"Burning of the Plaine du Cap – Massacre of whites by the blacks". On 22 August 1791, slaves set fire to plantations, torched cities, and massacred the white population. (from History of Haiti)
Image 5Large portions of the National Palace collapsed. (from History of Haiti)
Image 6Fabre Geffrard (from History of Haiti)
Image 7Sténio Vincent (from History of Haiti)
Image 8Élie Lescot (from History of Haiti)
Image 9Charles Rivière-Hérard (from History of Haiti)
Image 10President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns triumphantly to the National Palace at Port-au-Prince in 1994 (from History of Haiti)
Image 11Flamingo tongue on a purple sea fan from Arcadin Islands, Haiti. This sea snail is found living on various species of soft corals and sea fans. (from Environment of Haiti)
Image 12Fishing village in Haiti, 1996 (from History of Haiti)
Image 13"Revenge taken by the Black Army for the Cruelties practiced on them by the French", by Marcus Rainsford, 1805 (from History of Haiti)
Image 14Haitian folk singer Manno Charlemagne (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 15Paul Magloire (from History of Haiti)
Image 16Bishop's House in Cap-Haitien, 1907 (from History of Haiti)
Image 17Jovenel Moïse (from History of Haiti)
Image 18Jean-Claude and Michèle Duvalier en route to the airport to flee the country, 7 February 1986 (from History of Haiti)
Image 19Opening of the mausoleum of Pétion and Dessalines in 1926 (from History of Haiti)
Image 20The Kingdom of Haiti in the North and the Republic of Haiti in the South (from History of Haiti)
Image 21Provisional President Boniface Alexandre (2004–2006) led the intervention of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti in 2004. (from History of Haiti)
Image 22Staff of the German legation and the Hamburg-Amerika Line agency at Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1900. The agency was involved in the staffing and management of the legation. German nationals were comparatively numerous in Haiti and heavily involved in the Haitian economy until World War I. (from History of Haiti)
Image 23The battle of Santo Domingo (1806) painted by Nicholas Pocock in 1808 (from History of Haiti)
Image 24Swearing-in ceremony of Haitian Diaspora GwètòDe (Clergy in Vodou) (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 25Christopher Columbus landing on the island of Hispaniola in 1492 (from History of Haiti)
Image 26U.S. Marines patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince, 9 March 2004 (from History of Haiti)
Image 27Leclerc's veterans storm Ravine-a-Couleuvre (Snake Gully) in 1802. (from History of Haiti)
Image 28The French army, led by Leclerc, lands in Cap Français (1802). (from History of Haiti)
Image 29American Marines in 1915 defending the entrance gate in Cap-Haïten (from History of Haiti)
Image 30U.S. Coast Guard intercepting Haitian refugees, 1998 (from History of Haiti)
Image 31A sugar mill in Haiti (L'Homme et la Terre by Élisée Reclus, 1830–1905) (from History of Haiti)
Image 32"The Mode of exterminating the Black Army, as practiced by the French", by Marcus Rainsford, 1805 (from History of Haiti)
Image 33Kanaval in Jacmel Haiti 2014 03 (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 34Michel Domingue (from History of Haiti)
Image 35Engraving of Cap-Français in 1728 (from History of Haiti)
Image 36Jean-Pierre Boyer (from History of Haiti)
Image 37Battle for Santo Domingo, by January Suchodolski (1845) (from History of Haiti)
Image 38Bread market in St. Michel, 1928–1929 (from History of Haiti)
Image 39The National Palace burned down during the revolt against Salnave in 1868 (from History of Haiti)
Image 40Port-au-Prince and surroundings at the start of the 19th century (from History of Haiti)
Image 41Market street in Port-au-Prince, 1996 (from History of Haiti)
Image 42The coronation of Faustin I of Haiti in 1849 (from History of Haiti)
Image 432004 Haiti flood (from Environment of Haiti)
Image 44Dumarsais Estimé (from History of Haiti)
Image 45René Préval (from History of Haiti)
Image 46As the unofficial leader of the revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture is considered the father of Haiti. (from History of Haiti)
Image 47Michel Martelly (from History of Haiti)
Image 48Lysius Salomon (from History of Haiti)
Image 49The ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace, severely damaged in the 1842 earthquake and never rebuilt (from History of Haiti)
Image 50Marine's base at Cap-Haïtien (from History of Haiti)
Image 51U.S. troops seizing Port-au-Prince airfield, September 1994 (from History of Haiti)
Image 52François Duvalier in 1968 (from History of Haiti)

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