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Le ministre délégué chargé des questions électorales et constitutionnelles, Joseph André Gracien Jean, a annoncé l’ouverture prochaine de la période d’inscription des partis politiques dans le cadre du processus électoral. Il a également indiqué que le registre électoral sera mis à jour.

A U.S. military warship has arrived off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where two U.S. Coast Guard cutters are also patrolling nearby. The presence of the USS Southland comes as tensions continue to rise ahead of Feb. 7, the date marking the end of the mandate of Haiti’s nine-member Transitional Presidential Council. Although the council has agreed to step down — and some members have publicly said they would—others have continued to involve themselves in transition plans, despite warnings from U.S. officials that their term will end on Saturday.

Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin argued in a social media post that the designation was not intended to be long-term and had been granted following an earthquake in Haiti over a decade ago. The Department of Homeland Security signaled Monday night that it would take a federal judge's ruling that blocked the Trump administration from ending its Temporary Protected Status designation for Haitians to the Supreme Court.

The troubled Caribbean country, Haiti, has fielded two athletes for the Milan Cortina Winter Games, and they will proudly wear Haitian symbols — although one less than intended after intervention by the International Olympic Committee. The skiers will compete in uniforms designed by Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean that originally featured an image of Toussaint Louverture, the former slave who led a revolution that created the world’s first Black republic in 1804. The IOC ruled that the image violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism, requiring Jean to come up with a creative solution: painting over the nation’s founding father.

A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington granted to pause the termination of temporary protected status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging it proceeds. The TPS designation for people from the Caribbean island country was scheduled to end on Feb. 3.