Haiti

(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)

(Quelle: UN News) While the troubled Caribbean nation of Haiti is making tentative steps towards stability and development, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's latest report on the progress of the United Nations peacekeeping mission there warns that the rule of law remains weak and armed groups continue to undermine the country's institutions.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) China is sending 125 riot police on a United Nations peacekeeping mission to Haiti, the Caribbean nation which has full diplomatic ties with Beijing's rival Taiwan, state media reported Sunday. Xinhua news agency said this will be the first time China has ever sent riot police abroad to take part in a UN peacekeeping mission.

(Quelle: Reliefweb) A U.N. peacekeeping mission seeking to restore order in impoverished, unstable, Haiti has been hampered by a shortage of promised international troops and police, a U.N. official said on Thursday. To date, just 2,755 of an authorized 6,700 U.N. troops are on the job in Haiti, not enough to deploy in the troubled north and east, where armed gangs remain a problem, Assistant Secretary-General Hedi Annabi was quoted as telling a closed-door meeting of the U.N. Security Council.