Month: October 2022
About 96,000 Haitians flee homes to escape gangs and kidnapping, UN says
Gangs believed to control about 60% of Port-au-Prince as Haitians also struggling with dwindling supplies for food, water and basics Gang violence, kidnapping and intimidation…
Quand Mélanie et Tony parlent d’Haïti
Dans les hauteurs de la Biosphère, vendredi, c’est par une séance entièrement en français que le chef de la diplomatie américaine, Antony Blinken, a…
Haitian politician shot dead, as violent gangs and political turmoil push country to the ‘edge of collapse’
A Haitian politician has been shot dead outside his home, authorities have said, as international concerns intensify over the gang violence, political turmoil and humanitarian…
‘Haiti needs us.’ But Blinken and Joly warn crisis demands triage
OTTAWA, Ont. — Haiti will have to wait. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly met in Ottawa Thursday…
L’ordre du chaos convient à tout le monde
Une bande armée dangereuse ne survivrait pas un week-end en Haïti. Ce qui se passe aux Nations Unies n’a d’autre finalité que le maintien du…
Le Canada envoie une mission de reconnaissance
Ottawa) Le Canada a dépêché une mission de reconnaissance en Haïti afin de déterminer l’aide et les outils qui devraient être fournis aux forces de…
Colombia, the world’s largest cocaine producer, faces a change in drug policy
The grizzled farmers had come on motorcycles and in pickups from jungle homesteads to a soccer field hours from the nearest town of any consequence….
Food Sovereignty in Haiti – Part Two
his is the second installment of a two-part article. Click here to read part one. The gangs running rampant in Haiti have created a…
World powers at U.N. unanimously adopt arms embargo, travel ban and sanctions aimed at Haiti criminal gangs
United Nations – The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Haiti on Friday, with a targeted arms embargo, a U.N. Panel of Experts…
Who’s behind Haiti’s powerful gang alliance? – Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
PBS By — Dánica Coto, Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has approved a resolution that imposes sanctions on Jimmy…
US-backed foreign intervention has led to the disaster in Haiti
Pooja Bhatia US justifications for intervention ignore the ways in which Haiti has rarely, if ever, been allowed to manage its own affairs ‘Intervention hollows…
UN chief calls for ‘armed action’ in Haiti amid growing crisis
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says action needed to end gangs’ blockade of port, allow in fuel and aid. Al Jazeera The head of the United…
Biden administration drafts UNSC resolution to support deployment of rapid action force to Haiti
The United States has drafted a United Nations Security Council resolution that would support the deployment of a rapid action force to Haiti immediately as…
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Des individus lourdement armés ont attaqué, ce soir, la base de l’Unité Départementale de Maintien d’Ordre (UDMO) située à Habitation Leclerc ( Martissant). Aucune perte…
Haiti’s cholera resurgence symptomatic of other ills
Port-au-Prince When Haiti’s main infectious illness specialist heard that cholera, the fatal waterborne illness that he and others had spent just about a decade looking…
STATEMENT BY SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN
October 12, 2022 Steps to Address the Humanitarian and Security Situation in Haiti As Haiti faces a deadly resurgence of cholera, malign actors continue to…
PNH Fights For Survival
Des individus lourdement armés ont attaqué, ce soir, la base de l’Unité Départementale de Maintien d’Ordre (UDMO) située à Habitation Leclerc ( Martissant). Aucune…
Haiti crisis: Clashes and looting as anger boils over
By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News At least one woman was reportedly killed as protesters clashed with police in Haitian cities on Monday. Police confronted demonstrators…
Crisis-hit Haiti braces for new cholera outbreak as gangs hamper relief efforts
In a country beset by violence, water and fuel shortages have closed healthcare facilities and allowed the disease to re-emerge Cité Soleil, the shanty town…
Haïti, face à une nouvelle flambée de choléra en octobre 2022
lenational.org Au début du mois d’octobre 2022, Haïti se trouve de nouveau frappé par le choléra après l’épidémie qui avait éclaté en 2010 et qui…