Haiti

(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.

(Quelle: UN News) The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti and the country's police force say they have dismantled an important criminal gang wanted for several recent kidnappings and murders after arresting four men yesterday morning.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) Haitian President Rene Preval nominated his longtime ally Robert Manuel as prime minister late Sunday amid a political crisis marked by soaring food prices, parliamentary sources said on Monday. The nominee must be approved by both houses of parliament and the president informed parliamentary leaders of his choice on Sunday evening, the sources said.

(Quelle: Washington Post) Haitian lawmakers rejected President Rene Preval's candidate for prime minister on Monday, undercutting his efforts to establish a stable democracy in the deeply impoverished Caribbean country.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) Slum leaders in the southern town of Les Cayes who started Haiti's recent food riots handed lawmakers an ultimatum on Monday to install a new government within a week or face more protests.

(Quelle: UN News) The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is in Haiti for talks on food security with top officials including President René Préval. Widespread food riots in the small Caribbean nation – the poorest in the Western Hemisphere – led to the dismissal of Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis last month.

(Quelle: UN News) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has written to more than a dozen key Member States, asking for their urgent assistance in addressing the situation in Haiti, which has witnessed violent protests in recent weeks over rising food prices and a rapid deterioration in socio-economic conditions that threatens to undo the gains achieved by the tiny nation.

(Quelle: UN News) Haiti will remain in an extremely precarious economic and humanitarian situation unless it receives an urgent injection of funds to widen emergency feeding operations, extend existing job programmes and jump-start agricultural activity, a senior United Nations official to the impoverished Caribbean country has warned.

(Quelle: UN News) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Security Council and the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti have joined together to strongly condemn Saturday’s execution-style killing of a Nigerian police officer serving with the operation in the impoverished Caribbean country.