Haiti too insecure for August presidential vote, PM says
Haiti’s security is not at a level needed to hold elections this August, Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime said in an interview broadcast on Monday, as the Caribbean’s most populous nation awaits its first presidential vote in a decade.
Elections in Haiti have been repeatedly delayed by various governments as powerful armed gangs cement their power over the capital and spread to rural and central Haiti, killing thousands and displacing over a million people in recent years.
“It is clear that the security conditions are not met at the level for us to have elections in August,”
Fresh gang attacks frustrate Haiti businesses, hit charity hospital as residents flee
A new wave of violence by armed groups fighting for territorial control in Haiti has left at least eight people dead in the Lower Artibonite region north of the capital over the weekend, and forced the evacuation of neighborhoods along with one of the few operational hospitals in Port-au-Prince.
The French medical charity Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières said Monday that its staff was forced to evacuate and suspend operations at its hospital in the Cité Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince after more than 24 hours of heavy clashes between armed groups. The announcement came hours after residents in Croix-des-Bouquets and others neighborhoods in the Cul-de-Sac Plain fled their homes in the dark.
L’ambassadeur du Canada parle d’Haïti sans filtre (VIDEO)
Au cours de cet échange, le diplomate est revenu sur les sanctions imposées par le Canada à certaines personnalités et entités haïtiennes, les implications de son pays dans la mise en place de la Force de répression des gangs (FRG), à la suite de l’échec de la mission kényane, ainsi que le soutien d’Ottawa à la transition dirigée par Alix Didier Fils-Aimé.
House of Challenge : la télé-réalité africaine qui captive Haïti
L’engagement haïtien autour d’Ariana a surpris par son ampleur financière. Selon les éléments rapportés, des milliers de dollars ont été dépensés en cadeaux virtuels TikTok pour soutenir la candidate et faire grimper son compteur dans la dernière ligne droite de la compétition. Dans un pays confronté à une crise sécuritaire profonde, à une inflation persistante et à un effondrement partiel des services publics, cette mobilisation économique vers une plateforme étrangère interroge. Elle révèle aussi la place qu’occupent les réseaux sociaux dans l’expression d’une fierté collective, en l’absence d’autres canaux fédérateurs.
Pope and Haiti’s leader discuss security, migration and humanitarian challenges
Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé discussed his country’s ongoing security and socio-political crisis, as well as humanitarian and migration challenges, during an audience with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Saturday.
Before the visit, Fils-Aimé stopped in Miami to help launch the construction of a new, multistory Haitian Consulate office in Brickell. He told the Miami Herald that he planned to appeal to the pope for support for an international peace conference on Haiti.