April 17, 2025, marks the 200th anniversary of that indemnity agreement. On Jan. 1 of this year, the now-former president of ...

FRANCE: President Emmanual Macron has stated that a historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a ...

On April 17, the Assembly of Caribbean People, joined by trade unions and other organizations, submitted a letter to the ...

French president Emmanuel Macron announced a joint commission to examine reparations for Haiti, but some want action.

The cost of independence Haiti officially declared its independence from France ... been the only response from France’s ...

France will create a joint commission with Haiti to examine the historic "independence debt" that helped impoverish Haiti, ...

In an official communiqué, Macron acknowledged the “heavy financial indemnity” his country imposed upon Haiti and announced “a joint Franco-Haitian commission responsible for examining our common past ...

Two centuries ago this month, France pulled off one of history’s greatest armed extortions: After the first three leaders of a newly freed Haiti refused to cave in to hefty ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a ...

Paris, Apr 17 (AP) French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity to France in exchange for its independence ...

“Today, on this bicentenary, we must look history in the face,” Macron said. “For France, it also means assuming its share of truth in the construction of memory, so painful for Haiti.” He described ...

On the anniversary of Haiti’s formal recognition by France, President Macron called the debt imposed unjust. Advocates want reparations.