Two centuries to the day after France imposed a crippling debt on Haiti in exchange for its independence, a UN forum has ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the formation of a joint commission with Haiti to examine their intertwined ...

On April 17, 1825, Charles X, brother to Louis XVIII and the new French king, performed a sudden about-face. Charles X issued ...

“In a world that was still largely colonial and based on slavery, it was seen as an aberration that former slaves were able to free themselves,” says Frédéric Thomas, a Haiti expert at the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a joint Franco-Haitian commission to scrutinize France's colonial ...

French President Emmanuel Macron says it was an injustice imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity in ...

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After two centuries, a contrite tone from President Emmanuel Macron, though no talk of reparations for French actions that ...

Over the years, French governments have acknowledged the historic wrong of slavery in Haiti and other former colonies but like other former colonial powers have resisted calls for reparations.