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People displaced from their earthquake destroyed homes spend the night outdoors in a grassy area that is part of a hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, late Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. A powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Search for survivors continues after Haiti earthquake

By Mark Stevenson and Evens Sanon - Associated Press

People gather outside the Petit Pas Hotel, destroyed by the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, with the epicenter about 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the US Geological Survey said. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

‘Overwhelmed’: Death toll from Haiti quake nearly doubles

By Evens Sanon and Collin Binkley - Associated Press

Haiti's interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph gives a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Friday, July 16, 2021, the week after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s on July 7. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Official: Haiti’s interim prime minister to step down

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

A woman carries a basin with her belongings at the Petion-Ville market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, July 11, 2021, four days after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Florida suspect in Haitian president’s killing deepens mystery

By Danica Coto, Ben Fox and Terry Spencer - Associated Press

Mototaxi drivers wait for customers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, July 10, 2021, three days after President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in his home. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

‘We need help’: Haiti’s interim leader requests US troops

By By DÁNICA COTO and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Suspects in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise are displayed to the media at the General Direction of the police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, July 8, 2021. Moise was assassinated in an attack on his private residence early Wednesday. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

2 U.S. men, several ex-Colombian soldiers held in Haiti assassination

By Evens Sanon, Danica Coto and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2020 file photo, Haiti's President Jovenel Moise speaks during an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti is bracing for a fresh round of widespread protests starting Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, with opposition leaders demanding that President Moise step down next month, worried he is amassing too much power as he enters his second year of rule by decree. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

Haiti braces for unrest as opposition demands new president

By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press

Armed off-duty police officers take cover during and exchange of gunfire with army soldiers, as they protest over police pay and working conditions, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. Off-duty police officers and their supporters exchanged fire for nearly two hours with members of the newly reconstituted Haitian army in front of the national palace. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Haiti police exchange fire with troops near national palace

By EVENS SANON and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

People stand outside the Orphanage of the Church of Bible Understanding where a fire broke out the previous night in the Kenscoff area outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. A fire swept through this orphanage run by a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit group, killing 13 children, including infants, according to health care workers. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Haiti officials say 15 children died in residence fire

By EVENS SANON and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and BEN FOX - Associated Press

In this Feb. 12, 2020 photo, a police officer directs motorcycles to speed up during a protest against the dire security situation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Two years after the departure of UN peacekeepers, some police are protesting working conditions and demanding a union, which the government says would be illegal. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

With government paralyzed, rising crime terrifies Haitians

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

In this Nov. 27, 2019 photo, Wadlande Pierre, right, talks on her mobile phone as she helps her mother, Vanlancia Julien, center, at their fruit and vegetable stand on a sidewalk in Delmas, a district of in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Pierre, 23, said she temporarily moved in with her aunt in the southwest town of Les Cayes to escape the violent protests in Port-au-Prince. However, she had to move back to the capital because there was no gas, power or water in Les Cayes, and food was becoming scarce. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Protests subside, but economic aftershocks rattle Haitians

By EVENS SANON and DANICA COTO - Associated Press

Accompanied by First Lady Martine Moise, center right, and and acting prime minister Jean Michel Lapin, center left, President Jovenel Moise, center, arrives to lay flowers to mark the anniversary of the death of Haitian revolution leader Jean Jacques Dessalines, at Champ de Mars, adjacent to the National Palace, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday Oct. 17, 2019. President Moise has been facing ever more violent protests demanding his resignation fueled by anger over corruption, inflation and dwindling of basic supplies, including gasoline. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Protesters bar Haiti’s president from visiting historic site

By EVENS SANON - Associated Press

Vendors sell from sidewalk stands and people wait for public transport, alongside a car burned during Monday protests, in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. There was a relative pause in disturbances that have wracked Haiti’s capital for weeks as protesters have tried to drive President Jovenel Moïse from power. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Deadly protests squeeze Haitians in shrinking economy

By DÁNICA COTO - Associated Press

Ruling party Senator Ralph Fethiere fires his gun outside Parliament as he arrives for a vote on the ratification of Fritz William Michel's nomination as prime minister in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. Opposition members confronted ruling-party senators, and Fethiere pulled a pistol when protesters rushed at him and members of his entourage. The vote was cancelled. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Ralph Fethiere, Haiti senator, fires gun; AP photographer wounded

By Evens Sanon - Associated Press

National police shoot at protesters demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise near the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. Protesters are angry about skyrocketing inflation and the government's failure to prosecute embezzlement from a multi-billion Venezuelan program that sent discounted oil to Haiti. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Official: 8 armed men detained in Haiti could be sent to US

By EVENS SANON and DANICA COTO - Associated Press

In this Dec. 10, 2018, file photo, police guard an alleged gang member to keep the crowd from attacking him outside a police station in the La Saline slum of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents believe the arrested man is one of the perpetrators of a Nov. 13 massacre that killed at least 20 people in La Saline slum. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Witnesses: Men in police garb massacred civilians in Haiti

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

A worker sits on his wheelbarrow while waiting for customers in downtown of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) ** FILE **

Magnitude 5.9 quake shakes northern Haiti

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An orphan boy stands next to a staircase while looking out from the Nest of Hope orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday, June 28, 2018. A new program is cited by Haitian and foreign experts as evidence of the government's determination to modernize and strengthen an array of child-oriented policies and practices _ and lessen reliance on foreign-based charities and mission groups. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

New to Haiti: Foster care for the nation’s parentless kids

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

An orphan boy stands next to a staircase while looking out from the Nest of Hope orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday, June 28, 2018. A new program is cited by Haitian and foreign experts as evidence of the government's determination to modernize and strengthen an array of child-oriented policies and practices _ and lessen reliance on foreign-based charities and mission groups. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Haiti grapples with task of helping its vulnerable children

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

A boy stands on a tarp at the Foyer Notre Dame de la Nativite orphanage on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. The State Department is being urged by a group of U.S. senators to pressure the Haitian government into closing the orphanage where several children being adopted by U.S. families have been victims of alleged sexual abuse. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

US senators seek to close Haiti orphanage amid abuse claims

By BEN FOX - Associated Press