UN warns of rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in Haiti (Video Press Conference: Edem Wosornu)
A senior UN humanitarian official on Friday warned that Haiti is facing one of the most “severe and rapidly deteriorating” humanitarian crises in the Western Hemisphere, with more than half its population in urgent need of aid.
During a press briefing in New York following a recent visit to Haiti, Edem Wosornu, director of the Crisis Response Division at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said 6.4 million people now require humanitarian assistance out of a population of nearly 12 million.
Haiti postpones voter registration for first election in a decade, no new dates given
Haiti's CEP electoral council said on Wednesday it was postponing a voter registration that should have begun on April 1, adding it would shortly announce new dates to register for the nation's first presidential election in a decade.
CEP President Jacques Desrosiers told Reuters the delay was due to a legal matter tied to the new government of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime, and that the government must now deliver a new decree which could delay the process.
Desrosiers said if the new decree is issued on time, elections could still be held by the end of this year.
Cariftas Games de natation 2026 : la sélection Haïti, une petite équipe avec de grandes ambitions
À 17 ans, Christian Jerome que tout le monde appelle "le lion dans l’eau" à cause de sa force naturelle, est 2 fois champion des Cariftas au 100m papillon. En 2026, à la Martinique, il a défendu le titre qu’il a remporté à Trinidad-et-Tobago en 2025. Il détient le record des Cariftas du 200m papillon (2:04:82) établi en 2025 à Trinidad-et-Tobago.
Les mercenaires de Vectus Global en Haïti depuis un an: bilan mitigé et contrat toujours tenu secret
"Il y a eu des progrès - par exemple la police a connu moins de défaites lors de ses opérations, des zones de la région métropolitaine ont été récupérées comme le Champ de mars et une partie du centre-ville. Cependant il faut souligner que ces avancées restent fragiles : la police n'a pas la capacité de consolider toutes les zones récupérées dans cette période transitoire.» Car après le passage des drones il n'y a pas suffisamment de patrouilles régulières sur place. Autre précision : aucun chef important de groupe armé n'a été arrêté et aucune route stratégique n'a été récupérée non plus.
Children make up half of Haiti’s gangs. They’re about to face a new foreign force.
Children make up about 50% of armed groups in the country, experts estimate. In 2024 alone, at least 302 children were “recruited and used” by gangs across the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the latest UN secretary general’s report on children and armed conflict. Most were used in combat roles, it said.
Traces of this phenomenon can be spotted on gangs’ social media. Last week, during a gang attack that left dozens dead in Artibonite, Haiti’s agricultural heartland, one video appeared to show a round-cheeked young boy waving a rifle and mugging for the camera. Behind him, an older man repeatedly fired into the distance.