Haiti

Civilian contractors, equipment and supplies arrive in Port-au-Prince to lay groundwork for long-stalled deployment.

The majority of Haiti's transition council who had nominated an interim prime minister earlier this week has walked back the decision, exposing the internal turmoil of the group charged with leading the Caribbean nation out of a prolonged crisis.

Since the early 1990s, there have been no fewer than seven civilian, police, and peacekeeping missions led by the United Nations (UN) in Haiti. … The experience of past UN missions demonstrates the failure of a security-focused approach decoupled from a change in the economic and political status quo in Haiti. 

Haiti's transitional council on Tuesday elected Fritz Belizaire, a former youth and sports minister, as the country’s new prime minister. … The seven-member voting body was sworn in last week to restore security to the dysfunctional country.

A transitional ruling council is scheduled to be sworn in Thursday in Haiti. … The nine-member council will be tasked with naming a new prime minister and helping set up a new government ahead of planned elections.

The ongoing crisis in Haiti is having a “massive” and “devastating” impact, with over half the population acutely food insecure and more than one million staring at emergency levels of hunger, a senior UN World Food Programme (WFP) official said on Thursday.

[…] “Today, it pains me to note that all speeches and callings had not avoided that some of the worst scenarios for Haiti have become realities in recent months and weeks,” said Maria Isabel Salvador, who also heads the UN mission in Haiti, BINUH.

Haitian business leaders said in a letter addressed to Kenyan President William Ruto that they were "extremely concerned" over a delay to a United Nations-backed security mission his government has pledged to lead to fight gangs in the Caribbean nation. 

Haitian leaders have finalized a deal for a temporary government to steer their Caribbean nation out of gang-fueled chaos, but the details must first be approved by the outgoing authorities, Agence France Presse confirmed Monday. Members of the transition council sent their plan to the regional Caribbean body CARICOM late Sunday.

Restoring public order and ensuring access to aid must be priorities in Haiti, where criminal gangs continue to terrorize the population, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday in Geneva.