The assassination of Haiti’s president may worsen its response to COVID-19

by Rashmee

Posted on July 9, 2021 / open Democracy


Rashmee Roshan Lall The 7 July assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse was the first …

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The ABC of the assassination of Haiti’s president: little accuracy, some brevity, no clarity

by Rashmee

Posted on July 8, 2021


/IT’S THE BUSINESS Within minutes of the news flash on July 7, three things became …

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Por qué Haití no ha vacunado aún a una sola persona

by Rashmee

Posted on July 5, 2021 / open Democracy


Es fácil culpar al estado de disfunción crónica de Haití, pero esa no es toda …

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Haiti earns yet another grim distinction: not a single person vaccinated

by Rashmee

Posted on June 20, 2021


/ TRAVELS IN MY MIND I only recently learned that Haiti is the only country …

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‘The Mermaid of Black Conch’ takes us on an enchanted journey

by Rashmee

Posted on February 14, 2021


/ TRAVELS IN MY MIND  I was three-fourths of the way through fellow UEA alumna …

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When it comes to peace, is the EU really a great power?

by Rashmee

Posted on January 21, 2020 / The National


Even before he became the European Union’s new foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, suggested that …

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Trump’s threat to ruin Iraq financially has a historical parallel

by Rashmee

Posted on January 19, 2020 / The Arab Weekly


It is outrageous to expect Iraq, which has suffered the loss of hundreds of thousands …

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The only real link between Chile, Lebanon, Algeria, Hong Kong is the word ‘protest’

by Rashmee

Posted on November 3, 2019


The editor of Open Democracy, the UK political website, pointed out a crucial point the …

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UN winds up its Haiti mission with a pitiful epitaph: It brought cholera to the island

by Rashmee

Posted on October 9, 2017


On Friday (Oct 6) the UN wound up MINUSTAH, its 13-year-old peacekeeping mission in Haiti, …

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Trump went to Puerto Rico. And brought to life a scene in Graham Greene’s Haiti novel

by Rashmee

Posted on October 5, 2017


When Donald Trump went to Puerto Rico, I remembered Graham Greene’s telling portrait of imperious …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK