A former Colombian military officer has been charged in the US in connection with the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse last July. The US Justice Department said Mario Antonio Palacios is accused of having participated in a plot to kidnap or kill the Haitian president. He appeared at a Miami court on Tuesday to hear the…
50 people have been killed when after a fuel tanker exploded in northern Haiti. The lorry is said to have been involved in an accident and the victims had been trying to gather leaking fuel when it ignited. Hospitals in the northern city have reportedly been overwhelmed by people injured in the explosion.