Haiti

Haiti is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea bordered to the east by the Dominican Republic. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean with a population of 11.4 million. Its people are almost entirely descended from enslaved African people who won independence from France in 1804, making it the second country in the Americas after the United States to free itself from colonial rule and the first in the world to abolish slavery. It has since experienced socioeconomic and political crises marked by riots, widespread hunger and gang activity. The country endured a catastrophic earthquake in 2010 which killed more than 250,000 people.