Explainer – What’s driving Haiti’s humanitarian crisis?
Reuters Haiti is facing a humanitarian crisis, with shortages of food, fuel and water causing catastrophic hunger, and the government pleading for military assistance from abroad. What is causing the crisis?The trigger for the current crisis is the blockade of a key fuel terminal by armed gangs that began in September. That has led to […]
UN chief suggests rapid action force to help Haiti
United NationsReuters UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed that one or several countries send “a rapid action force” to help Haiti’s police remove a threat posed by armed gangs, according to a letter to the UN Security Council, seen by Reuters on Sunday. Guterres is not suggesting that the force be deployed by the United […]