Haiti

(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.

(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.