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

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 demands to ...

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

After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the ...