PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced ...

Haiti, which declared its independence on Jan. 1, 1804, and defeated Napoleon’s army soon after, didn’t have the money to pay ...

A joint commission of French and Haitian historians will examine the contentious issue of the huge sum that Paris forced its ...

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 on Thursday said a joint commission of French and Haitian historians would investigate the ...

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

On Thursday, April 17, 2025, as part of the bicentennial of Haiti's independence debt, the Élysée Palace published a ...

The victorious Haitians proclaimed their independence in 1804 ... as “normalised interference” in Haiti’s affairs that continues to this day. “Two hundred years on, we're still in ...

The top U.N. official in Haiti is sounding an alarm to the U.N. Security Council that escalating gang violence is liable to ...

The French president did not, however, address longstanding Haitian demands for reparations over what is referred to as a ...

French President Emmanuel Macron highlights the historic injustice of Haiti's indemnity to France for independence, marking ...

It comes on the 200th anniversary of the April 17, 1825 document issued by King Charles X of France, which recognized Haiti’s independence after a slave revolt — but also imposed a 150 million ...