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Kenya: How Haiti’s Ksh 72B Independence Fee From France Plays a Part in Spiralling Gang Crisis

Kenya: How Haiti’s Ksh 72B Independence Fee From France Plays a Part in Spiralling Gang Crisis

Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Kenyans.co.ke
Published on 2025-04-20 12:08:28

France President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged that France, Haiti’s coloniser, played a part in the historic injustices Haiti continues to face today.

This comes 200 years after Haiti was forced to pay 150 million gold francs to France in exchange for its independence to pay off French plantation owners for lost property on April 17, 1825.

“France subjected the people of Haiti to a heavy financial indemnity… This decision placed a price on the freedom of a young nation, which was thus…

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