Haiti

(Quelle: UN News) The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, which has been operating at less than half its authorized strength, will receive several hundred new members by the end of October, a UN spokesman said today. A formed unit of 125 police from China is expected to arrive on Sunday, Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York. A further 622 Sri Lankan troops are expected from 25 to 29 October and the troops making up a Spanish/Moroccan battalion are also expected at the end of this month.

(Quelle: New York Times) Former soldiers who led a revolt against the former Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, gathered in the capital on Wednesday, saying reinforcements were coming to help end violence that has killed at least 48 people. The advancing rebels would provide security in Port-au-Prince, a former master sergeant, Joseph Jean-Baptiste, said in a broadcast on Radio Vision 2000. The development threatens to generate conflict with United Nations peacekeepers and armed pro-Aristide militants.

(Quelle: BBC) The US has urged allies of exiled Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to rein in militants after two weeks of unrest and nearly 50 deaths. A US state department spokesman accused Mr Aristide's supporters of seeking to undermine the interim government formed after his overthrow in February. Trouble began at the end of September at a rally by Aristide opponents in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

(Quelle: Globe & Mail) Two UN peacekeepers were wounded in shootouts with supporters of Haiti's ousted president in the capital and storm survivors in flood-ravaged Gonaives, the first casualties of the 4-month-old UN mission, officials said Sunday.

(Quelle: New York Times) Determined to quell a week of violence that has killed at least 19 people and possibly many more, Haitian police officers and United Nations soldiers fanned out Wednesday, arresting people suspected of being militants and searching for weapons in a show of force.

(Quelle: Washington Post) Armed police in combat boots karate-chopped and slashed the air with black clubs, part of a Chinese display of peacekeeping force as Beijing dispatches a 125-strong contingent to Haiti - its first contribution to a U.N. mission in the Western Hemisphere.

(Quelle: Washington Post) Scores of armed rebels approached Gonaives and some sneaked into the city despite opposition from U.N. peacekeepers, ratcheting up more tension in the city of a quarter million devastated by floods more than a week ago.

(Quelle: New York Times) The United Nations rushed hundreds more peacekeepers to storm-ravaged Gonaïves on Monday to stem looting, while hundreds of weary Haitians lined up for food before daybreak after spending a miserable night in the rain from Tropical Storm Jeanne.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) Argentina will send reinforcements to the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti on Tuesday, said a governmental statement on Monday. The sending of the reinforcements will promote the cooperation between the UN mission and the Haiti government in dealing with such emergencies as managing the consequence of the Tropical Storm Jeanne, said the statement.

(Quelle: UN News) Against a backdrop of stepped-up activities by rogue elements in Haiti, the United Nations Security Council today called for the urgent disbanding of all illegal armed groups undermining stability and security in parts of the strife-torn Caribbean country. … The statement ... also urged contributing countries to 'do their utmost to expedite the early deployment of their personnel' in troops and civilian police for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)