Haiti

(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.

(Quelle: BBC) The Haitian Senate has voted to dismiss Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis following widespread rioting earlier this week over soaring food prices. A special session of the upper chamber backed a motion calling on President Rene Preval to appoint a new cabinet.

(Quelle: UN News) Three United Nations peacekeepers serving in Haiti were shot last night in a poor neighbourhood of the capital, Port-au-Prince, amid widespread public demonstrations and discontent over the rising cost of the living in the impoverished Caribbean country.

(Quelle: New York Times) The police in Haiti struggled Wednesday to control looting and rioting over high food prices as President René Préval issued a sharp call for an end to the chaos. … In the speech, his first public comments on the issue since protests began last week, he urged Haiti’s Congress to cut taxes on imported food.