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Dominican Republic security forces stand guard on a border bridge between Dajabón, Dominican Republic, and Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. The president of the Dominican Republic announced ...
“This will clearly have very bad consequences economically in the Dominican Republic, and it will very likely worsen the humanitarian situation mostly in the areas close to the border.” Haiti ...
DAJABON, Dominican Republic — The Dominican Republic partially reopened its border with Haiti on Wednesday to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier in a ...
FILE - Haitians wait to cross the border between Dominican Republic and Haiti in Dajabon, Dominican Republic, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. As Haiti’s crisis, exacerbated by the 2021 assassination of ...
Haiti has declined to join its neighbor the Dominican Republic in important commercial border crossing negotiations, The Associated Press reports. Amid debates over the construction of a canal on ...
If you fly over Hispaniola, you can see a notable difference between the Haitian and Dominican sides of the border ... Republic, deforestation is also a problem — but not nearly on the scale of ...
Border security has become a chief concern for the Dominican Republic as gang violence has flung the neighboring nation of Haiti into chaos, prompting tighter border security and deportations.
The Dominican Republic will close its entire border with neighbouring Haiti later this week, President Luis Abinader has announced, as a conflict over the construction of a canal from a shared ...
The Dominican president said the military would enforce the measure on Friday morning. Experts warned the closure could deepen Haiti’s economic crisis. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hogla Enecia ...
The Dominican Republic last fully closed its border with Haiti following Moise’s assassination. Relations between the two countries, which share the island of Hispaniola, have grown increasingly ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —The Dominican Republic had already begun building a wall at its border with Haiti. Then it cracked down on immigration, deporting tens of thousands of Haitians back to ...
People stand near the construction of a canal, on the bank of the Massacre River, a natural border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, photographed from Dajabon, Dominican Republic ...