Haiti

(Quelle: BBC) The UN special envoy to Haiti says the country has been overwhelmed by the effects of recent storms. Hedi Annabi said the scale of the disaster was beyond what the UN and Haitian authorities could deal with and more international help was needed. He said the western city of Gonaives was all but destroyed and every house had been damaged or swamped by mud.

(Quelle: UN News) Efforts to stabilize Haiti have suffered serious setbacks in the past six months as a result of ongoing political disturbances, the delay in selecting a new prime minister and spiralling food prices, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report.

(Quelle: UN News) The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti today welcomed the decision by some of the country’s political parties to back the new Prime Minister’s political programme, which would end the four-month parliamentary impasse over the formation of a new government.

(Quelle: UN News) Senior officials with the United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti have met with their counterparts in the Haitian National Police (HNP) in a notorious district of the capital to discuss how to strengthen the relationship between the two institutions.

(Quelle: UN News) The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) is bolstering its presence in a key north-eastern border town as part of efforts to clamp down on illegal drug trafficking and improve security in an area prone to smuggling and other crimes.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) Haiti's Senate on Thursday ratified economist Michele Pierre-Louis, President Rene Preval's third choice for prime minister, ending a three-month impasse after the last government was dismissed over food price riots.

(Quelle: BBC) Ex-soldiers in Haiti who seized two former military buildings, have ended a tense 24-hour stand-off with police and UN peacekeepers, officials said.

(Quelle: UN News) Human rights officers with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti have welcomed the graduation from training of more than 200 new prison guards to help improve conditions in the country’s overcrowded jail system.

(Quelle: ISN Security Watch) The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Marie Guehenno, on Sunday called on Haiti's political leaders to hammer out a speedy consensus to end a crisis that has gripped the nation for months. 'A quick way out of the political crisis is needed. It's essential that Haiti get a new government,' Guehenno said at the end of a 48-hours visit here.

(Quelle: Le Monde) Le président haïtien, René Préval, a désigné l'économiste Michèle Pierre-Louis pour remplacer le premier ministre Jacques-Edouard Alexis, victime d'une motion de censure le 12 avril. Le Parlement a rejeté les deux premiers candidats proposés par le président. Les Haïtiens et la communauté internationale espèrent que ce choix permettra enfin de sortir de la crise politique qui a suivi les émeutes de la faim du début avril.