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 …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MorePor 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 …
Read MoreHaiti 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 …
Read More‘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 …
Read MoreWhen 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 …
Read MoreTrump’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 …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreUN 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, …
Read MoreTrump 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