What’s being done to help the people of Haiti?

 

Haiti is descending into a deepening crisis – with no let-up for its long-suffering people. 

Senior UN officials say political instability, gang warfare, poverty and the effect of recent natural disasters like earthquakes have left Haiti’s people in dire need of help.

Government appeals for international military support have largely gone unanswered.

Haiti calls for international help, should the UN intervene?

 

The United Nations says more than 4 million people - a third of all Haitians - are facing food insecurity. On top of that, a shortage of clean water has also led to a cholera outbreak. Both food and water are running low because there's no fuel for delivery trucks due to a port blockade by powerful gangs.

Why is Haiti unable to handle its humanitarian crisis? | Inside Story

 

Haiti’s prime minister is under mounting pressure as little help reaches survivors of a powerful earthquake.

It is a nation that has long suffered from natural disasters and political turmoil. Haiti is once again devastated – by a powerful earthquake.

The tragedy has been accelerated by a tropical storm on top of the pandemic. At least 2,000 people have been killed, many are displaced and hospitals are overwhelmed.

Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse killed in attack at home | DW News

 

The president of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, was shot and killed in his private residence. The president's residence has put out a statement Wednesday saying the attack occurred around 1 a.m. and that the first lady Martine Moise was also wounded in the attack

Illegal Deforestation: Death by a Thousand Cuts (video)

When a ranger is killed near the Dominican Republic's border with Haiti, the impact of illegal deforestation is exposed.

In 2012, Eligio Eloy Vargas, nicknamed Melaneo, a park ranger in a Dominican National Park was found murdered with a machete.

At the time, he was on patrol investigating an illegal charcoal production site run by Haitians coming across the border into a protected Dominican forest.

His murder becomes the starting point to investigate the larger story of increasing tension between Haiti and the Dominican Republic over illicit charcoal exploitation and mass deforestation: the alleged murder weapon itself being the same tool used to chop down Dominican trees by the thousands.