Security Council vote next week ?

Friday September 22, 2023, following a high-level meeting on security in Haiti at the invitation of American Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Maria Isabel Salvador, Head of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) estimated that the UN Security Council could vote on the resolution authorizing a multinational security mission in Haiti next week without specifying a date.

Saut-d’Eau : Police station burned down

Friday, September 22, high tension reigned in the town of Saut-d'Eau (Dept. of the Centre) where heavily armed individuals terrorized the population of the commune... In the evening, these individuals attacked and set fire to the police station...

Conditional stay : 71,000 Haitians already legally in the USA

According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials, from January 5 to August 2023, more than 211,000 people : Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans arrived legally in the country as part of the conditional residence program including 71,000 Haitians out of the 84,000 authorized.

UN : SG Guterres / PM Henry meeting

Secretary General Antonio Guterres spoke with Prime Minister Ariel Henry and expressed solidarity with the Haitian people who continue to suffer from a multifaceted crisis, exacerbated by gang violence. The two men also discussed the deployment of a Multinational Security Support Mission in support of the Haitian National Police. They further discussed the importance of reaching broad political agreement in order to create conditions conducive to holding elections and paving the way for development.

Haiti : Biden organized an important meeting

Friday, September 22, 2023, President Biden organized a closed-door meeting on Haiti, on the agenda: the needs of the Kenyan mission and the results of the assessment mission to Haiti carried out by senior Kenyan officials last August. More than 30 countries attended the meeting, and at least 11 of them made commitments to support the mission without further details, according to a senior U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to the resulting from this meeting...

Haiti will deport an American citizen

American citizen Robert Brenton Nutther will be expelled from Haitian territory. The expulsion order was adopted on September 19, 2023 and published in the official journal Le Moniteur. Robert Brenton was arrested in Les Cayes last July and accused of "incitement to violence".

HL/ HaitiLibre