A Vodou ceremony aboard a boat filled with desperate Haitian migrants seeking a safe landing ended in tragedy after candles and matches used in the ritual set gasoline-filled drums on fire, setting ...

Migration from Haiti has spiked in recent months, as people flee a worsening crisis that has seen criminal gangs take control of swaths of territory - Copyright AFP ...

Haiti has long been beset with grave problems - and a few years after the 2004 Festival it would suffer the devastating earthquake of 2010. But Haitians' love of freedom nevertheless inspires them and ...

SAUT D'EAU, Haiti -- Wearing red satin scarves and lugging rum and palm-thatch mats on their heads, tens of thousands trekked to sacred waterfalls yesterday in a voodoo pilgrimage to pray for ...

At least 40 migrants have died after a boat they were traveling in caught fire off the northern coast of Haiti, a UN agency said Friday, with police saying the explosion was sparked by a voodoo ritual ...

A mural in the northern port city of Cap-Haïtien warns Haitians about the perils of illegal migration Jacqueline Charles [email protected] A Vodou ceremony aboard a boat filled with desperate ...

A Vodoo ceremony aboard a boat filled with desperate Haitian migrants seeking a safe landing ended in tragedy after candles and matches used in the ritual set gasoline-filled drums on fire, setting ...